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Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.

Roland Barthes

Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
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Literature Poet Talk Writing
I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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Absence Myself Responsibility World
Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.
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Desire Disappointment Pleasure Rival Truth
The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
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Author Beginning Death Deep Writing
Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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Different Magic Sight Touch
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 lover who does not forget sometimes dies from excess, fatigue, and the strain of memory (like Werther).
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Forget Lover Memories Strain Time
We can never know, for the good reason that writing is the destruction of every voice, every origin. Writing is that neuter, that composite, that obliquity into which our subject flees, the black-and-white where all identity is lost, beginning with the very identity of the body that writes.
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Body Destruction Goodness Identity Known Subject Voice Writing
A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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Emotion Light Reserve Shadow
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
This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.
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Absence Condition Endurance Faith Myself Survival
The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
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Creation Education School
One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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Mouth Oneself Speaking Time Tongue
To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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Food Moral Rare Representation
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
Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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Fantasy Greatness Mythology Photography

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