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Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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Fragile Soft Talk Tender Yourself
Isn’t desire always the same, whether the object is present or absent? Isn’t the object always absent? -This isn’t the same languor: there are two words: Pothos, desire for the absent being, and Himéros, the more burning desire for the present being.
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Absence Burning Desire Object Present
Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
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Afford Appearance Body Erotic Glimpse
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
Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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Construction Front Physical Symbolic
Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
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Architecture Convenience Dreams Function Instrument
Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
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Age Experience Old Specific Vision
The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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Born Cost Death Reading
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
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Confession Inflexion Lying
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
The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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Creation Life Meaning
The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
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Author Beginning Death Deep Writing
I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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I Love You Myself Removal
A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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Invisible Photograph See
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
I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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Absence Myself Responsibility World

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