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It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.

Roland Barthes

The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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Culture Drawing Text
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
The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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Creation Life Meaning
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
Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
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Afford Appearance Body Erotic Glimpse
What love lays bare in me is energy.
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Bare Energy Love One Liner
The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself).
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Bliss Desire Language Oneself Science Writing
I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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Absence Myself Responsibility World
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
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Confession Inflexion Lying
Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?
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Better Burn Evaluation Kind Love
Physically, the Ventoux is dreadful. Bald, it’s the spirit of Dry: Its climate (it is much more an essence of climate than a geographic place) makes it a damned terrain, a testing place for heroes, something like a higher hell.
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Essence Hell Heroes High Place
We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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Forget Ourselves Settle
Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
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Architecture Convenience Dreams Function Instrument
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
Every exploration is an appropriation.
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Appropriate Exploration
The photographic image is a message without a code.
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Code Image Message Photography

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