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Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.

Roland Barthes

The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
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Author Beginning Death Deep Writing
We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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Forget Ourselves Settle
The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!
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Himself Imagination Policy Politics Trouble
Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.
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Fear Photography Scare Thinking
How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?
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Beyond Image Meaning
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
Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
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Mourning Myself Suffering
We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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Common Deep Intelligence Known Name Philosophy Sense War
One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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Mouth Oneself Speaking Time Tongue
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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Beginning Known Love Myself Writing
I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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I Love You Myself Removal
Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
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Myself Painting Reality See
The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
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Creation Education School
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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Classification Desire Myself Speciality Stereotype Truth Unique
The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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Born Cost Death Reading
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
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Excession Language Love Try Writing

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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