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What love lays bare in me is energy.

Roland Barthes

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
I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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Absence Myself Responsibility World
To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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Food Moral Rare Representation
He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.
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Himself Life Reading Story
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
There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.
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Attend People Performance Spectacle Sports Thinking
Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?
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Better Burn Evaluation Kind Love
Every exploration is an appropriation.
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Appropriate Exploration
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
Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
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Camera Certificate Photograph Presence
Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
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Literature Poet Talk Writing
A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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Emotion Light Reserve Shadow
If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.
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Creation Fear God Problem Scare Slow Understand Understanding
The realists do not take the photograph for a ‘copy’ of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art.
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Art Magic Photography Reality
Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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Construction Front Physical Symbolic
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
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Confession Inflexion Lying

What love lays bare in me is energy.

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