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The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.

Roland Barthes

All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of Death.
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Death Determination Photography Young
The lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
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Fatal Identify Love Myself Oneself Wait
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
Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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Construction Front Physical Symbolic
We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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Forget Ourselves Settle
A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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Invisible Photograph See
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
It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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Emotional Sexuality
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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Community Family Instrument Television
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
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
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
If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.
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Creation Fear God Problem Scare Slow Understand Understanding
To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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Food Moral Rare Representation
I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it’s been pretty fun.
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Fun Life Myself Possible Pretty Professional

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