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Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.

Roland Barthes

I cannot classify the other, for the other is, precisely, Unique, the singular Image which has miraculously come to correspond to the speciality of my desire. The other is the figure of my truth, and cannot be imprisoned in any stereotype (which is the truth of others).
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Classification Desire Myself Speciality Stereotype Truth Unique
I passed beyond the unreality of the thing represented, I entered crazily into the spectacle, into the image, taking into my arms what is dead, what is going to die.
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Beyond Death Myself Pass Reality Spectacle
The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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Fashion Time Value
We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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Common Deep Intelligence Known Name Philosophy Sense War
The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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Culture Drawing Text
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
Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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Fragile Soft Talk Tender Yourself
Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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Failure Obligation Reading Story
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
What love lays bare in me is energy.
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Bare Energy Love One Liner
All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.
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Ideas Institution Meaning Official Popular Repeat Structure
A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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Emotion Light Reserve Shadow
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
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Confession Inflexion Lying
Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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Different Magic Sight Touch
One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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Mouth Oneself Speaking Time Tongue

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