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

Roland Barthes

A picture is never anything but its own plural description.
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Description Photograph Plural
The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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Creation Life Meaning
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
Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
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Myself Painting Reality See
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
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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Escape Present Way
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
Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
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Afford Appearance Body Erotic Glimpse
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
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
This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.
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Absence Condition Endurance Faith Myself Survival
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
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Confession Inflexion Lying
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
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
Why is it better to last than to burn?
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Better Burn Last Myself
The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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Culture Drawing Text

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