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Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.

Roland Barthes

Physically, the Ventoux is dreadful. Bald, it’s the spirit of Dry: Its climate (it is much more an essence of climate than a geographic place) makes it a damned terrain, a testing place for heroes, something like a higher hell.
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Essence Hell Heroes High Place
I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
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Interesting Language Myself Seduce Wound
Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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Hard Time Ourselves Suffering
The lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
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Fatal Identify Love Myself Oneself Wait
Language is never innocent.
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Innocent Language One Liner
Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
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Evidence Literature Trouble Understand
A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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Invisible Photograph See
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
A picture is never anything but its own plural description.
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Description Photograph Plural
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
We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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Forget Ourselves Settle
The photographic image is a message without a code.
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Code Image Message Photography
The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
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Creation Education School
To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought?
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Answer Hope Love Myself Question Yourself
Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
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Architecture Convenience Dreams Function Instrument
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

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