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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

Roland Barthes

Why is it better to last than to burn?
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Better Burn Last Myself
Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
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Mourning Myself Suffering
To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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Food Moral Rare Representation
Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
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Literature Poet Talk Writing
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
Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
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Afford Appearance Body Erotic Glimpse
The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
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Creation Education School
If I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand: in the realm of love, futility is not a “weakness” or an “absurdity”: it is a strong sign: the more futile, the more it signifies and the more it asserts itself as strength.)
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Acknowledge Demand Depend Myself Sign Strength Strong
Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.
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Camera Living Myself Old Photography Sound
It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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Character Consider Myself Novel
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
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
One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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Mouth Oneself Speaking Time Tongue
Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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Fragile Soft Talk Tender Yourself
The realists do not take the photograph for a ‘copy’ of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art.
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Art Magic Photography Reality
Language is never innocent.
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Innocent Language One Liner

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