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

Roland Barthes

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
Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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Failure Obligation Reading Story
I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it’s been pretty fun.
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Fun Life Myself Possible Pretty Professional
Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
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Mourning Myself Suffering
Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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Construction Front Physical Symbolic
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
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
Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
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Literature Poet Talk Writing
What love lays bare in me is energy.
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Bare Energy Love One Liner
Why is it better to last than to burn?
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Better Burn Last Myself
Every object in the world can pass from a closed, silent existence to an oral state, open to appropriation by society, for there is no law, whether natural or not, which forbids talking about things
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Existence Law Natural Object Silence Society State
To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for origin.
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Body Eat Origin Sing Talk
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
Every exploration is an appropriation.
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Appropriate Exploration
Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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Hard Time Ourselves Suffering
Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
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Camera Certificate Photograph Presence

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