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Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.

Roland Barthes

Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
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Bliss Image Knowledge Mythology World
A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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Emotion Light Reserve Shadow
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 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
Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
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Existence Language Man Position
I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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I Love You Myself Removal
Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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Construction Front Physical Symbolic
The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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Culture Drawing Text
Why is it better to last than to burn?
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Better Burn Last Myself
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
New York is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.
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Abstraction Desert Height Man Reality
It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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Character Consider Myself Novel
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
In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs. The ‘anything whatever’ then becomes the sophisticated acme of value.
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Notable Order Photography Sophistication Value
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
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Classification Forget Language Oppression Power Speech

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