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I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.

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
Isn’t desire always the same, whether the object is present or absent? Isn’t the object always absent? -This isn’t the same languor: there are two words: Pothos, desire for the absent being, and Himéros, the more burning desire for the present being.
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Absence Burning Desire Object Present
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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Answer Hope Love Myself Question Yourself
To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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Food Moral Rare Representation
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
I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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I Love You Myself Removal
Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
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Architecture Convenience Dreams Function Instrument
It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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Character Consider Myself Novel
What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
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Existence Oneself Repeat Reproduction
The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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Creation Life Meaning
As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.
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Exploration Myself Photography Question Wound
All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of Death.
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Death Determination Photography Young
It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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Emotional Sexuality
Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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Fragile Soft Talk Tender Yourself
I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time.
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Arrival Lose Myself Time
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

I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.

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