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Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.

Roland Barthes

I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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I Love You Myself Removal
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
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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Notable Order Photography Sophistication Value
What love lays bare in me is energy.
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Bare Energy Love One Liner
One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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Mouth Oneself Speaking Time Tongue
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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Patience Power Wait
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
All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.
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Ideas Institution Meaning Official Popular Repeat Structure
A picture is never anything but its own plural description.
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Description Photograph Plural
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
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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Bliss Desire Language Oneself Science Writing
Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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Failure Obligation Reading Story
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
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
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Confession Inflexion Lying
In front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself: she is going to die: I shudder, like winnicott’s psychotic patient, over a catastrophe which has already occurred. Whether or not the subject is already dead, every photograph is this catastrophe.
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Children Death Fear Mom Myself Patient Photography
Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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Fantasy Greatness Mythology Photography

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