Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
ROLAND BARTHESLanguage is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
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Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.
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When we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead.
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The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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Every exploration is an appropriation.
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The realists do not take the photograph for a ‘copy’ of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art.
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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
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The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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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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We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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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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