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Roland Barthes

To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for origin.
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Body Eat Origin Sing Talk
One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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Mouth Oneself Speaking Time Tongue
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
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
Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?
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Better Burn Evaluation Kind Love
We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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Common Deep Intelligence Known Name Philosophy Sense War
The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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Born Cost Death Reading
It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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Character Consider Myself Novel
Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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Fantasy Greatness Mythology Photography
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
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
Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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Construction Front Physical Symbolic
I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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Absence Myself Responsibility World
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 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
A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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Emotion Light Reserve Shadow

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