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A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.

Roland Barthes

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
Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
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Architecture Convenience Dreams Function Instrument
What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
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Existence Oneself Repeat Reproduction
The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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Culture Drawing Text
The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
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Author Beginning Death Deep Writing
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
Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
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Evidence Literature Trouble Understand
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
Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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Different Magic Sight Touch
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
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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Patience Power Wait
One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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Mouth Oneself Speaking Time Tongue
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
What love lays bare in me is energy.
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Bare Energy Love One Liner
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
Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
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Existence Language Man Position

A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.

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