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I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.

Roland Barthes

Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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Failure Obligation Reading Story
I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
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Interesting Language Myself Seduce Wound
Language is never innocent.
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Innocent Language One Liner
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
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
Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
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Myself Painting Reality See
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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Escape Present Way
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
The lover who does not forget sometimes dies from excess, fatigue, and the strain of memory (like Werther).
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Forget Lover Memories Strain Time
New York is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.
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Abstraction Desert Height Man Reality
The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
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Creation Education School
I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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I Love You Myself Removal
It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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Character Consider Myself Novel
Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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Different Magic Sight Touch
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

I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.

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