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"I put on dark glasses. The intention of this gesture is a calculated one: I want to keep the moral advantage of stoicism, of 'dignity', and at the same time, contradictorily, I want to provoke the tender question: "But what's the matter with you?"

I take a risk: for it is always possible that the other will simply ask no question whatever about these unaccustomed glasses; that the other will see, in fact, no sign."

text by Roland Barthes in "a lover's discourse, fragments"
image: Gilbert Garcin "O"