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To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.

Roland Barthes

Isn’t desire always the same, whether the object is present or absent? Isn’t the object always absent? -This isn’t the same languor: there are two words: Pothos, desire for the absent being, and Himéros, the more burning desire for the present being.
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Absence Burning Desire Object Present
I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
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Blame Guilty Myself Power
In front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself: she is going to die: I shudder, like winnicott’s psychotic patient, over a catastrophe which has already occurred. Whether or not the subject is already dead, every photograph is this catastrophe.
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Children Death Fear Mom Myself Patient Photography
The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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Fashion Time Value
Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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Hard Time Ourselves Suffering
The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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Culture Drawing Text
The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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Creation Life Meaning
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
It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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Character Consider Myself Novel
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
Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
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Existence Language Man Position
One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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Mouth Oneself Speaking Time Tongue
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
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
To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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Food Moral Rare Representation
The photographic image is a message without a code.
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Code Image Message Photography

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