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Roland Barthes

Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.
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Language Prevent Progression Speech
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
How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?
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Beyond Image Meaning
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
I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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I Love You Myself Removal
Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.
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Fear Photography Scare Thinking
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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Patience Power Wait
One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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Mouth Oneself Speaking Time Tongue
In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs. The ‘anything whatever’ then becomes the sophisticated acme of value.
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Notable Order Photography Sophistication Value
The photographic image is a message without a code.
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Code Image Message Photography
To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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Food Moral Rare Representation
What love lays bare in me is energy.
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Bare Energy Love One Liner
The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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Fashion Time Value
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
Every exploration is an appropriation.
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Appropriate Exploration
The lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
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Fatal Identify Love Myself Oneself Wait

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