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Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.

Roland Barthes

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
Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
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Existence Language Man Position
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
The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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Culture Drawing Text
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
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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Patience Power Wait
Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
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Afford Appearance Body Erotic Glimpse
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
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Confession Inflexion Lying
One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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Mouth Oneself Speaking Time Tongue
Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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Construction Front Physical Symbolic
A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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Emotion Light Reserve Shadow
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
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
Language is never innocent.
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Innocent Language One Liner
To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for origin.
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Body Eat Origin Sing Talk
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

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