The photographic image is a message without a code.
ROLAND BARTHESThe 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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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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Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
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The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
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Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
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The lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
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Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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Thus every writer’s motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.
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Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
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I passed beyond the unreality of the thing represented, I entered crazily into the spectacle, into the image, taking into my arms what is dead, what is going to die.
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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
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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.
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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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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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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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