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Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.

Roland Barthes

Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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Failure Obligation Reading Story
Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
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Camera Certificate Photograph Presence
I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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Absence Myself Responsibility World
Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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Hard Time Ourselves Suffering
The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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Culture Drawing Text
Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack to the feast, from the conversation at the local cafT to the speech at a formal dinner.
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Dinner Environment Formal Moral Society Talk Wine
He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.
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Himself Life Reading Story
In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs. The ‘anything whatever’ then becomes the sophisticated acme of value.
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Notable Order Photography Sophistication Value
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
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Classification Forget Language Oppression Power Speech
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!
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Himself Imagination Policy Politics Trouble
A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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Emotion Light Reserve Shadow
It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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Emotional Sexuality
The lover who does not forget sometimes dies from excess, fatigue, and the strain of memory (like Werther).
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Forget Lover Memories Strain Time
New York is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.
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Abstraction Desert Height Man Reality
Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
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Myself Painting Reality See
The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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Creation Life Meaning

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