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To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought?

Roland Barthes

One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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Mouth Oneself Speaking Time Tongue
Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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Fragile Soft Talk Tender Yourself
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
The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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Creation Life Meaning
The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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Born Cost Death Reading
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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Patience Power Wait
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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Art Magic Photography Reality
Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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Construction Front Physical Symbolic
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
I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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Absence Myself Responsibility World
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
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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Fun Life Myself Possible Pretty Professional
Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
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Existence Language Man Position
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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Death Ourselves Photography Return
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
Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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Failure Obligation Reading Story

To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought?

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