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

Roland Barthes

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
What love lays bare in me is energy.
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Bare Energy Love One Liner
Literature is the question minus the answer.
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Answer Literature Question
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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Patience Power Wait
Thus every writer’s motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.
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Design Myself Reading Writing
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 am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
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Interesting Language Myself Seduce Wound
We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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Forget Ourselves Settle
Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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Hard Time Ourselves Suffering
Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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Construction Front Physical Symbolic
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
Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
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Literature Poet Talk Writing
We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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Common Deep Intelligence Known Name Philosophy Sense War
When we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead.
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Death Ourselves Photography Return
Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or “filiation”), the Text is without a source – the “author” a mere “guest” at the reading of the Text.
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Reading Source Text Understand Work
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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Attend People Performance Spectacle Sports Thinking

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