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This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.

Roland Barthes

I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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Absence Myself Responsibility World
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.
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Desire Fingers Language Myself Skin Tremble Word
Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
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Literature Poet Talk Writing
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
What love lays bare in me is energy.
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Bare Energy Love One Liner
Every exploration is an appropriation.
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Appropriate Exploration
Physically, the Ventoux is dreadful. Bald, it’s the spirit of Dry: Its climate (it is much more an essence of climate than a geographic place) makes it a damned terrain, a testing place for heroes, something like a higher hell.
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Essence Hell Heroes High Place
The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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Born Cost Death Reading
Why is it better to last than to burn?
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Better Burn Last Myself
The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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Creation Life Meaning
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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Escape Present Way
To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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Food Moral Rare Representation
Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
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Afford Appearance Body Erotic Glimpse
Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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Failure Obligation Reading Story
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
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

This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.

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This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.

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