The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that!
ROLAND BARTHESA photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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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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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 cannot classify the other, for the other is, precisely, Unique, the singular Image which has miraculously come to correspond to the speciality of my desire. The other is the figure of my truth, and cannot be imprisoned in any stereotype (which is the truth of others).
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It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.
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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
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Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
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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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Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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Isn’t desire always the same, whether the object is present or absent? Isn’t the object always absent? -This isn’t the same languor: there are two words: Pothos, desire for the absent being, and Himéros, the more burning desire for the present being.
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Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.
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Thus every writer’s motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.
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Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language – the amorous language? No more ‘I love you’s.
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How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?
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It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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The 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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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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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
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As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.
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Literature is the question minus the answer.
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Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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