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One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.

Roland Barthes

It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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Character Consider Myself Novel
The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering.
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Evil Forgiveness God Ourselves Suffering Weakness
Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.
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Community Family Instrument Television
Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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Fantasy Greatness Mythology Photography
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
Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.
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Camera Living Myself Old Photography Sound
Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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Failure Obligation Reading Story
All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of Death.
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Death Determination Photography Young
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 legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
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Classification Forget Language Oppression Power Speech
The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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Born Cost Death Reading
Every exploration is an appropriation.
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Appropriate Exploration
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
Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
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Myself Painting Reality See
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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Patience Power Wait
We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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Forget Ourselves Settle

One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.

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