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How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?

Roland Barthes

I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time.
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Arrival Lose Myself Time
New York is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.
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Abstraction Desert Height Man Reality
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
Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?
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Better Burn Evaluation Kind Love
Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.
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Community Family Instrument Television
Literature is the question minus the answer.
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Answer Literature Question
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
I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.
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Body Desire Life Love Myself
Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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Different Magic Sight Touch
I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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Absence Myself Responsibility World
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
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
I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
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Interesting Language Myself Seduce Wound
Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
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Architecture Convenience Dreams Function Instrument
He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.
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Himself Life Reading Story

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