What love lays bare in me is energy.
ROLAND BARTHESThe text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself).
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A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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We can never know, for the good reason that writing is the destruction of every voice, every origin. Writing is that neuter, that composite, that obliquity into which our subject flees, the black-and-white where all identity is lost, beginning with the very identity of the body that writes.
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One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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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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Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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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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I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.
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It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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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.
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All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of Death.
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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