The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself).
ROLAND BARTHESThe book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
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How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?
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I cannot classify the other, for the other is, precisely, Unique, the singular Image which has miraculously come to correspond to the speciality of my desire. The other is the figure of my truth, and cannot be imprisoned in any stereotype (which is the truth of others).
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The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
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Literature is the question minus the answer.
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Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.
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He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.
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Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
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Thus every writer’s motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.
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Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.
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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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To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.
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