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

Roland Barthes

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
Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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Different Magic Sight Touch
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
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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Escape Present Way
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
The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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Creation Life Meaning
To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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Food Moral Rare Representation
Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
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Literature Poet Talk Writing
A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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The lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
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Fatal Identify Love Myself Oneself Wait
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
This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.
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Absence Condition Endurance Faith Myself Survival
I passed beyond the unreality of the thing represented, I entered crazily into the spectacle, into the image, taking into my arms what is dead, what is going to die.
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Beyond Death Myself Pass Reality Spectacle
A picture is never anything but its own plural description.
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The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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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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