The photographic image is a message without a code.
ROLAND BARTHESLanguage is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.
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Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
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I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which abolishes mythic time; and the photograph is a certain but fugitive testimony.
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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
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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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Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love (the other), to know that writing compensates for nothing, sublimates nothing, that it is precisely there where you are not–this is the beginning of writing.
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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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Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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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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