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There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.

Roland Barthes

A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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Emotion Light Reserve Shadow
Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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Hard Time Ourselves Suffering
Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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Failure Obligation Reading Story
I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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I Love You Myself Removal
Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.
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Desire Disappointment Pleasure Rival Truth
Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
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Camera Certificate Photograph Presence
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
We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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Forget Ourselves Settle
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
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
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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Patience Power Wait
The photographic image is a message without a code.
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Code Image Message Photography
The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
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Author Beginning Death Deep Writing
I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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Absence Myself Responsibility World
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
Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack to the feast, from the conversation at the local cafT to the speech at a formal dinner.
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Dinner Environment Formal Moral Society Talk Wine

There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.

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There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.

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