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

Roland Barthes

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
It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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Character Consider Myself Novel
I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it’s been pretty fun.
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Fun Life Myself Possible Pretty Professional
I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time.
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Arrival Lose Myself Time
Language is never innocent.
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Innocent Language One Liner
I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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I Love You Myself Removal
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
The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering.
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Evil Forgiveness God Ourselves Suffering Weakness
The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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Creation Life Meaning
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
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Confession Inflexion Lying
Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
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Architecture Convenience Dreams Function Instrument
I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
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Blame Guilty Myself Power
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
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Excession Language Love Try Writing
It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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Emotional Sexuality
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
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
Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
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Mourning Myself Suffering
A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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Invisible Photograph See
Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
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Myself Painting Reality See
The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself).
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Bliss Desire Language Oneself Science Writing
The photographic image is a message without a code.
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Code Image Message Photography
Literature is the question minus the answer.
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Answer Literature Question
Every exploration is an appropriation.
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Appropriate Exploration
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
Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.
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Fear Photography Scare Thinking
Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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Construction Front Physical Symbolic
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

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