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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!

Roland Barthes

Every object in the world can pass from a closed, silent existence to an oral state, open to appropriation by society, for there is no law, whether natural or not, which forbids talking about things
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Existence Law Natural Object Silence Society State
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 book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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Creation Life Meaning
The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
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Author Beginning Death Deep Writing
Language is never innocent.
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Innocent Language One Liner
A picture is never anything but its own plural description.
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Description Photograph Plural
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 photographer, like an acrobat, must defy the laws of probability or even of possibility; at the limit, he must defy those of the interesting: the photograph becomes surprising when we do not know why it has been taken.
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Known Law Limitation Photography Possible
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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Patience Power Wait
We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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Forget Ourselves Settle
Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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Construction Front Physical Symbolic
Literature is the question minus the answer.
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Answer Literature Question
Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
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Literature Poet Talk Writing
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
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Desire Fingers Language Myself Skin Tremble Word
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
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

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