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Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.

Roland Barthes

Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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Different Magic Sight Touch
I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
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Interesting Language Myself Seduce Wound
Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
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Architecture Convenience Dreams Function Instrument
This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.
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Absence Condition Endurance Faith Myself Survival
Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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Construction Front Physical Symbolic
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 passed beyond the unreality of the thing represented, I entered crazily into the spectacle, into the image, taking into my arms what is dead, what is going to die.
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Beyond Death Myself Pass Reality Spectacle
The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations.
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Art History Live Mutation Pleasure
I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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Absence Myself Responsibility World
The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
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Author Beginning Death Deep Writing
Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
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Myself Painting Reality See
Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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Failure Obligation Reading Story
Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
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Camera Certificate Photograph Presence
He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.
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Himself Life Reading Story
Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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Fantasy Greatness Mythology Photography
Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
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Afford Appearance Body Erotic Glimpse

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