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We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.

Roland Barthes

The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations.
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Art History Live Mutation Pleasure
Literature is the question minus the answer.
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Answer Literature Question
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
Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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Fantasy Greatness Mythology Photography
It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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Character Consider Myself Novel
Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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Different Magic Sight Touch
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
Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
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Mourning Myself Suffering
A picture is never anything but its own plural description.
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Description Photograph Plural
A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which abolishes mythic time; and the photograph is a certain but fugitive testimony.
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History Invention Photography Review
Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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Construction Front Physical Symbolic
Why is it better to last than to burn?
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Better Burn Last Myself
Language is never innocent.
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Innocent Language One Liner
The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering.
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Evil Forgiveness God Ourselves Suffering Weakness
Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.
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Language Prevent Progression Speech
The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself).
ROLAND BARTHES

Bliss Desire Language Oneself Science Writing

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