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I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.

Roland Barthes

We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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Forget Ourselves Settle
I cannot classify the other, for the other is, precisely, Unique, the singular Image which has miraculously come to correspond to the speciality of my desire. The other is the figure of my truth, and cannot be imprisoned in any stereotype (which is the truth of others).
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Classification Desire Myself Speciality Stereotype Truth Unique
The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
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Author Beginning Death Deep Writing
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
To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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Food Moral Rare Representation
Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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Fragile Soft Talk Tender Yourself
In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs. The ‘anything whatever’ then becomes the sophisticated acme of value.
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Notable Order Photography Sophistication Value
Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
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Architecture Convenience Dreams Function Instrument
The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!
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Himself Imagination Policy Politics Trouble
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
The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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Fashion Time Value
Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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Fantasy Greatness Mythology Photography
A picture is never anything but its own plural description.
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Description Photograph Plural
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
It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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Emotional Sexuality
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

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