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Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.

Roland Barthes

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
The photographic image is a message without a code.
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Code Image Message Photography
The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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Creation Life Meaning
What love lays bare in me is energy.
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Bare Energy Love One Liner
It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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Emotional Sexuality
New York is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.
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Abstraction Desert Height Man Reality
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
Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.
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Community Family Instrument Television
I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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Absence Myself Responsibility World
The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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Born Cost Death Reading
The lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
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Fatal Identify Love Myself Oneself Wait
To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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Food Moral Rare Representation
One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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Mouth Oneself Speaking Time Tongue
Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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Construction Front Physical Symbolic
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.
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Death Determination Photography Young
Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.
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Camera Living Myself Old Photography Sound

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