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I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.

Roland Barthes

Literature is the question minus the answer.
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Answer Literature Question
I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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I Love You Myself Removal
The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering.
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Evil Forgiveness God Ourselves Suffering Weakness
A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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Emotion Light Reserve Shadow
What love lays bare in me is energy.
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Bare Energy Love One Liner
I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
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Interesting Language Myself Seduce Wound
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
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
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Desire Fingers Language Myself Skin Tremble Word
The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations.
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Art History Live Mutation Pleasure
Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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Hard Time Ourselves Suffering
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
The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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Culture Drawing Text
Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
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Literature Poet Talk Writing
A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which abolishes mythic time; and the photograph is a certain but fugitive testimony.
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History Invention Photography Review
Language is never innocent.
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Innocent Language One Liner
It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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Emotional Sexuality

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