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Every exploration is an appropriation.

Roland Barthes

Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
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Bliss Image Knowledge Mythology World
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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Children Poem Poetry Reproduction Subject
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 whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought?
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Answer Hope Love Myself Question Yourself
The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
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Author Beginning Death Deep Writing
Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
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Architecture Convenience Dreams Function Instrument
All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.
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Ideas Institution Meaning Official Popular Repeat Structure
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
A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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Invisible Photograph See
Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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Failure Obligation Reading Story
Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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Different Magic Sight Touch
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
Language is never innocent.
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Innocent Language One Liner
A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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Emotion Light Reserve Shadow
There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.
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Attend People Performance Spectacle Sports Thinking
The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
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Creation Education School

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