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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

Roland Barthes

The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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Culture Drawing Text
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
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
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Confession Inflexion Lying
Every object in the world can pass from a closed, silent existence to an oral state, open to appropriation by society, for there is no law, whether natural or not, which forbids talking about things
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Existence Law Natural Object Silence Society State
Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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Failure Obligation Reading Story
Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
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Myself Painting Reality See
We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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Forget Ourselves Settle
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
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
The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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Creation Life Meaning
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
Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
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Literature Poet Talk Writing
The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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Born Cost Death Reading
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
Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
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Existence Language Man Position
Literature is the question minus the answer.
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Answer Literature Question

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