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Where you are tender, you speak your plural.

Roland Barthes

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 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
I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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I Love You Myself Removal
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
Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
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Existence Language Man Position
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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Escape Present Way
The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that!
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Children Poem Poetry Reproduction Subject
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
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
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
The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!
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Himself Imagination Policy Politics Trouble
Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.
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Community Family Instrument Television
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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Patience Power Wait
What love lays bare in me is energy.
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Bare Energy Love One Liner
Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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Different Magic Sight Touch
The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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Culture Drawing Text

Where you are tender, you speak your plural.

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