The Neutral

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 Image: Marc Chagall, La vita (1964)

» As a general rule, desire is always marketable: we don’t do anything but sell, buy, exchange desires […] And I think of Bloy’s words: “there is nothing perfectly beautiful except what is invisible and above all unbuyable.”

― The Neutral: Lecture Course at the College de France, Roland Barthes; p 13 

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