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Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.

Roland Barthes

The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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Creation Life Meaning
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
The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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Fashion Time Value
Every exploration is an appropriation.
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Appropriate Exploration
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
Thus every writer’s motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.
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Design Myself Reading Writing
To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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Food Moral Rare Representation
Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
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Bliss Image Knowledge Mythology World
Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or “filiation”), the Text is without a source – the “author” a mere “guest” at the reading of the Text.
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Reading Source Text Understand Work
As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.
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Exploration Myself Photography Question Wound
I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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Absence Myself Responsibility World
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
I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
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Interesting Language Myself Seduce Wound
Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack to the feast, from the conversation at the local cafT to the speech at a formal dinner.
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Dinner Environment Formal Moral Society Talk Wine
The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
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Author Beginning Death Deep Writing
It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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Emotional Sexuality

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