“The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!”

—  Roland Barthes

"Sentence," in The Pleasure of the Text (1975)

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French philosopher, critic and literary theorist 1915–1980

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