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Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.

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
Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language – the amorous language? No more ‘I love you’s.
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I Love You Language Lose Myself Point
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
The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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Fashion Time Value
Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
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Myself Painting Reality See
I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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Absence Myself Responsibility World
The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
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Author Beginning Death Deep Writing
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
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Confession Inflexion Lying
Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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Different Magic Sight Touch
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
I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
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Blame Guilty Myself Power
The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations.
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Art History Live Mutation Pleasure
Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
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Camera Certificate Photograph Presence
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
We can never know, for the good reason that writing is the destruction of every voice, every origin. Writing is that neuter, that composite, that obliquity into which our subject flees, the black-and-white where all identity is lost, beginning with the very identity of the body that writes.
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Body Destruction Goodness Identity Known Subject Voice Writing
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

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