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

Roland Barthes

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
ROLAND BARTHES

Blame Guilty Myself Power
Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
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Myself Painting Reality See
What love lays bare in me is energy.
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Bare Energy Love One Liner
What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
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Existence Oneself Repeat Reproduction
I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.
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Body Desire Life Love Myself
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
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Confession Inflexion Lying
Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.
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Language Prevent Progression Speech
A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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Emotion Light Reserve Shadow
Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
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Architecture Convenience Dreams Function Instrument
A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which abolishes mythic time; and the photograph is a certain but fugitive testimony.
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History Invention Photography Review
I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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Absence Myself Responsibility World
The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
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Author Beginning Death Deep Writing
Every exploration is an appropriation.
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Appropriate Exploration
To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for origin.
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Body Eat Origin Sing Talk
I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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I Love You Myself Removal
The photographer, like an acrobat, must defy the laws of probability or even of possibility; at the limit, he must defy those of the interesting: the photograph becomes surprising when we do not know why it has been taken.
ROLAND BARTHES

Known Law Limitation Photography Possible

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