Language is never innocent.
ROLAND BARTHESThe text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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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).
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Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.
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It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.
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A picture is never anything but its own plural description.
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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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I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs. The ‘anything whatever’ then becomes the sophisticated acme of value.
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Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that!
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The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
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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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The lover who does not forget sometimes dies from excess, fatigue, and the strain of memory (like Werther).
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The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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