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A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.

Roland Barthes

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
The lover who does not forget sometimes dies from excess, fatigue, and the strain of memory (like Werther).
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Forget Lover Memories Strain Time
It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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Character Consider Myself Novel
If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.
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Creation Fear God Problem Scare Slow Understand Understanding
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
Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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Failure Obligation Reading Story
It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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Emotional Sexuality
To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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Food Moral Rare Representation
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
Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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Fantasy Greatness Mythology Photography
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
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Classification Forget Language Oppression Power Speech
How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?
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Beyond Image Meaning
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
Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?
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Better Burn Evaluation Kind Love
I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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I Love You Myself Removal
The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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Fashion Time Value

A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.

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