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

Roland Barthes

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 Prevent Progression Speech
Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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Failure Obligation Reading Story
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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Patience Power Wait
It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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Emotional Sexuality
Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.
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Camera Living Myself Old Photography Sound
Why is it better to last than to burn?
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Better Burn Last Myself
The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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Born Cost Death Reading
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
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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Escape Present Way
Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
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Afford Appearance Body Erotic Glimpse
The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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Culture Drawing Text
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
The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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Fashion Time Value
To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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Food Moral Rare Representation
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
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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Existence Law Natural Object Silence Society State

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