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The lover who does not forget sometimes dies from excess, fatigue, and the strain of memory (like Werther).

Roland Barthes

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
Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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Construction Front Physical Symbolic
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
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Confession Inflexion Lying
The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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Creation Life Meaning
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
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Desire Fingers Language Myself Skin Tremble Word
Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
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Myself Painting Reality See
As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.
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Exploration Myself Photography Question Wound
The lover who does not forget sometimes dies from excess, fatigue, and the strain of memory (like Werther).
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Forget Lover Memories Strain Time
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
Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
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Evidence Literature Trouble Understand
To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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Food Moral Rare Representation
Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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Fragile Soft Talk Tender Yourself
Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
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Existence Language Man Position
I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
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Blame Guilty Myself Power
The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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Born Cost Death Reading
The photographic image is a message without a code.
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Code Image Message Photography

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