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Quotes from The New Citroën — Roland Barthes

1915–1980 France

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I think 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.

The New Citroën (1957)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Roland Barthes (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.