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

Roland Barthes

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
What love lays bare in me is energy.
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Bare Energy Love One Liner
Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.
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Desire Disappointment Pleasure Rival Truth
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
If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.
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Creation Fear God Problem Scare Slow Understand Understanding
The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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Fashion Time Value
The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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Born Cost Death Reading
Literature is the question minus the answer.
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Answer Literature Question
I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
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Interesting Language Myself Seduce Wound
To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love (the other), to know that writing compensates for nothing, sublimates nothing, that it is precisely there where you are not–this is the beginning of writing.
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Beginning Known Love Myself Writing
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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Escape Present Way
Language is never innocent.
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Innocent Language One Liner
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
Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
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Myself Painting Reality See
The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
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Creation Education School
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

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