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What love lays bare in me is energy.

Roland Barthes

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
Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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Failure Obligation Reading Story
Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
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Architecture Convenience Dreams Function Instrument
I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time.
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Arrival Lose Myself Time
Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.
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Camera Living Myself Old Photography Sound
The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
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Author Beginning Death Deep Writing
Every object in the world can pass from a closed, silent existence to an oral state, open to appropriation by society, for there is no law, whether natural or not, which forbids talking about things
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Existence Law Natural Object Silence Society State
Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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Hard Time Ourselves Suffering
The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
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Creation Education School
To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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Food Moral Rare Representation
I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it’s been pretty fun.
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Fun Life Myself Possible Pretty Professional
I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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I Love You Myself Removal
The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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Culture Drawing Text
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
Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
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Existence Language Man Position
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

What love lays bare in me is energy.

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