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A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.

Roland Barthes

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
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
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Desire Fingers Language Myself Skin Tremble Word
How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?
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Beyond Image Meaning
Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.
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Community Family Instrument Television
A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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Emotion Light Reserve Shadow
This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.
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Absence Condition Endurance Faith Myself Survival
Literature is the question minus the answer.
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Answer Literature Question
To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought?
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Answer Hope Love Myself Question Yourself
Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
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Evidence Literature Trouble Understand
Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.
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Fear Photography Scare Thinking
Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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Different Magic Sight Touch
What love lays bare in me is energy.
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Bare Energy Love One Liner
Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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Failure Obligation Reading Story
Thus every writer’s motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.
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Design Myself Reading Writing
The photographic image is a message without a code.
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Code Image Message Photography
Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
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Myself Painting Reality See

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