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We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.

Roland Barthes

How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?
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Beyond Image Meaning
We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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Forget Ourselves Settle
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
The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations.
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Art History Live Mutation Pleasure
A picture is never anything but its own plural description.
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Description Photograph Plural
Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
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Existence Language Man Position
Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a Right, the natural right of the present over the past.
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Experience Fashion Past Present Refusal
One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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Mouth Oneself Speaking Time Tongue
It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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Character Consider Myself Novel
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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Community Family Instrument Television
The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that!
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Children Poem Poetry Reproduction Subject
To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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Food Moral Rare Representation
There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.
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Attend People Performance Spectacle Sports Thinking
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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Abstraction Desert Height Man Reality
Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
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Age Experience Old Specific Vision
The lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
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Fatal Identify Love Myself Oneself Wait

We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.

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