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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

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
He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.
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Himself Life Reading Story
I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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I Love You Myself Removal
What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
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Existence Oneself Repeat Reproduction
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
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Confession Inflexion Lying
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
Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
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Existence Language Man Position
If I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand: in the realm of love, futility is not a “weakness” or an “absurdity”: it is a strong sign: the more futile, the more it signifies and the more it asserts itself as strength.)
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Acknowledge Demand Depend Myself Sign Strength Strong
Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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Construction Front Physical Symbolic
In front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself: she is going to die: I shudder, like winnicott’s psychotic patient, over a catastrophe which has already occurred. Whether or not the subject is already dead, every photograph is this catastrophe.
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Children Death Fear Mom Myself Patient Photography
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
Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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Failure Obligation Reading Story
The lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
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Fatal Identify Love Myself Oneself Wait
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
I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it’s been pretty fun.
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Fun Life Myself Possible Pretty Professional

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