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I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it’s been pretty fun.

Roland Barthes

He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.
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Himself Life Reading Story
One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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Mouth Oneself Speaking Time Tongue
Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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Failure Obligation Reading Story
What love lays bare in me is energy.
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Bare Energy Love One Liner
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
A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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Invisible Photograph See
Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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Fragile Soft Talk Tender Yourself
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
To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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Food Moral Rare Representation
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
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
I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.
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Body Desire Life Love Myself
Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
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Existence Language Man Position
Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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Fantasy Greatness Mythology Photography
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
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Excession Language Love Try Writing
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

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