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The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering.

Roland Barthes

We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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Forget Ourselves Settle
Physically, the Ventoux is dreadful. Bald, it’s the spirit of Dry: Its climate (it is much more an essence of climate than a geographic place) makes it a damned terrain, a testing place for heroes, something like a higher hell.
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Essence Hell Heroes High Place
It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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Character Consider Myself Novel
We can never know, for the good reason that writing is the destruction of every voice, every origin. Writing is that neuter, that composite, that obliquity into which our subject flees, the black-and-white where all identity is lost, beginning with the very identity of the body that writes.
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Body Destruction Goodness Identity Known Subject Voice Writing
Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
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Camera Certificate Photograph Presence
A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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Emotion Light Reserve Shadow
Literature is the question minus the answer.
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Answer Literature Question
To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought?
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Answer Hope Love Myself Question Yourself
New York is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.
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Abstraction Desert Height Man Reality
Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.
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Language Prevent Progression Speech
It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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Emotional Sexuality
Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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Construction Front Physical Symbolic
Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a Right, the natural right of the present over the past.
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Experience Fashion Past Present Refusal
The photographic image is a message without a code.
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Code Image Message Photography
The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
ROLAND BARTHES

Creation Education School
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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Patience Power Wait

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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