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What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.

Roland Barthes

To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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Food Moral Rare Representation
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
When we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead.
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Death Ourselves Photography Return
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
Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
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Mourning Myself Suffering
A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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Emotion Light Reserve Shadow
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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Patience Power Wait
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
I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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Absence Myself Responsibility World
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 text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself).
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Bliss Desire Language Oneself Science Writing
It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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Character Consider Myself Novel
I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.
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Body Desire Life Love Myself
The photographic image is a message without a code.
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Code Image Message Photography
I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
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Interesting Language Myself Seduce Wound
The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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Culture Drawing Text

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