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"I think that 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."
- Barthes, Roland

<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/3624/">I think that 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.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/499/">Barthes, Roland</a> on <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/automobiles/">Automobiles</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a>

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