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All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of Death.

Roland Barthes

One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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Mouth Oneself Speaking Time Tongue
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
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
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Confession Inflexion Lying
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
Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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Fantasy Greatness Mythology Photography
Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
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Afford Appearance Body Erotic Glimpse
Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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Construction Front Physical Symbolic
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
To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for origin.
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Body Eat Origin Sing Talk
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
Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
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Literature Poet Talk Writing
A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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Emotion Light Reserve Shadow
There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.
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Attend People Performance Spectacle Sports Thinking
The lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
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Fatal Identify Love Myself Oneself Wait
Language is never innocent.
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Innocent Language One Liner
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

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