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He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.

Roland Barthes

To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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Patience Power Wait
I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.
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Body Desire Life Love Myself
Why is it better to last than to burn?
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Better Burn Last Myself
Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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Hard Time Ourselves Suffering
Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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Different Magic Sight Touch
What love lays bare in me is energy.
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Bare Energy Love One Liner
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
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
Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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Fantasy Greatness Mythology Photography
The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that!
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Children Poem Poetry Reproduction Subject
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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History Invention Photography Review
Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
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Bliss Image Knowledge Mythology World
A picture is never anything but its own plural description.
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Description Photograph Plural
It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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Character Consider Myself Novel
Literature is the question minus the answer.
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Answer Literature Question
When we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead.
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Death Ourselves Photography Return

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