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

Roland Barthes

Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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Failure Obligation Reading Story
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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History Invention Photography Review
Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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Construction Front Physical Symbolic
The photographic image is a message without a code.
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Code Image Message Photography
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
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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I Love You Language Lose Myself Point
I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
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Blame Guilty Myself Power
We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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Forget Ourselves Settle
Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
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Existence Language Man Position
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
Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
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Mourning Myself Suffering
Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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Fantasy Greatness Mythology Photography
A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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Emotion Light Reserve Shadow
The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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Fashion Time Value
The lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
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Fatal Identify Love Myself Oneself Wait
Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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Hard Time Ourselves Suffering

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