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Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.

Roland Barthes

The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
ROLAND BARTHES

Creation Education School
I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
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Interesting Language Myself Seduce Wound
It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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Emotional Sexuality
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
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
To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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Food Moral Rare Representation
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
Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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Different Magic Sight Touch
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
Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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Construction Front Physical Symbolic
Every exploration is an appropriation.
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Appropriate Exploration
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
A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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Emotion Light Reserve Shadow
Physically, the Ventoux is dreadful. Bald, it’s the spirit of Dry: Its climate (it is much more an essence of climate than a geographic place) makes it a damned terrain, a testing place for heroes, something like a higher hell.
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Essence Hell Heroes High Place
Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.
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Desire Disappointment Pleasure Rival Truth
A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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Invisible Photograph See

Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.

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