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Roland Barthes

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
It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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Character Consider Myself Novel
I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
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Interesting Language Myself Seduce Wound
Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
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Myself Painting Reality See
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
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Confession Inflexion Lying
Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
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Evidence Literature Trouble Understand
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 never innocent.
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Innocent Language One Liner
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
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Excession Language Love Try Writing
I cannot classify the other, for the other is, precisely, Unique, the singular Image which has miraculously come to correspond to the speciality of my desire. The other is the figure of my truth, and cannot be imprisoned in any stereotype (which is the truth of others).
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Classification Desire Myself Speciality Stereotype Truth Unique
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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Patience Power Wait
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
I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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Absence Myself Responsibility World
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
A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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Invisible Photograph See
The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
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Author Beginning Death Deep Writing

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