When we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead.
ROLAND BARTHESI love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.
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We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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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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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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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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A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which abolishes mythic time; and the photograph is a certain but fugitive testimony.
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Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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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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The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
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Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
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The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
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To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
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