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Roland Barthes

Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or “filiation”), the Text is without a source – the “author” a mere “guest” at the reading of the Text.
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Reading Source Text Understand Work
To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love (the other), to know that writing compensates for nothing, sublimates nothing, that it is precisely there where you are not–this is the beginning of writing.
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Beginning Known Love Myself Writing
I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
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Blame Guilty Myself Power
What love lays bare in me is energy.
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Bare Energy Love One Liner
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
We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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Forget Ourselves Settle
What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
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Existence Oneself Repeat Reproduction
Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
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Afford Appearance Body Erotic Glimpse
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
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
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
Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
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Camera Certificate Photograph Presence
One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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Mouth Oneself Speaking Time Tongue
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
To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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Food Moral Rare Representation

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