What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
More Quotes from Roland Barthes:
To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion is in essence made to be seen the hiding must be seen I want you to know that I am hiding something...Roland Barthes
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
Roland Barthes
Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
Roland Barthes
I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.
Roland Barthes
Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack. . . to the feast. . .
Roland Barthes
I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.
Roland Barthes
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