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Roland Barthes

I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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I Love You Myself Removal
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
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Excession Language Love Try Writing
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
Why is it better to last than to burn?
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Better Burn Last Myself
The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
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Creation Education School
A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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Invisible Photograph See
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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Children Poem Poetry Reproduction Subject
What love lays bare in me is energy.
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Bare Energy Love One Liner
Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language – the amorous language? No more ‘I love you’s.
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I Love You Language Lose Myself Point
If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.
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Creation Fear God Problem Scare Slow Understand Understanding
I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
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Interesting Language Myself Seduce Wound
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
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
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Confession Inflexion Lying
The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!
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Himself Imagination Policy Politics Trouble
We can never know, for the good reason that writing is the destruction of every voice, every origin. Writing is that neuter, that composite, that obliquity into which our subject flees, the black-and-white where all identity is lost, beginning with the very identity of the body that writes.
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Body Destruction Goodness Identity Known Subject Voice Writing
Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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Construction Front Physical Symbolic

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