In Popular Culture
Barthes's "A Lover's Discourse: Fragments" was the inspiration for the name of 1980s new wave duo The Lover Speaks.
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“There is a continual exchange of ideas between all minds of a generation. Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt the truths discovered by the powerful intellects for the multitude. It is like a spiritual flood, like a gush that pours into multiple cascades until it forms the great moving sheet of water that stands for the mentality of a period.”
—Auguste Rodin (1849–1917)
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—George Steiner (b. 1929)
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