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Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.

Roland Barthes

One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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Mouth Oneself Speaking Time Tongue
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
Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
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Myself Painting Reality See
I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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Absence Myself Responsibility World
Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
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Afford Appearance Body Erotic Glimpse
Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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Construction Front Physical Symbolic
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
I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
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Blame Guilty Myself Power
I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
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Interesting Language Myself Seduce Wound
The photographic image is a message without a code.
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Code Image Message Photography
Language is never innocent.
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Innocent Language One Liner
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
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
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Excession Language Love Try Writing
It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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Character Consider Myself Novel
I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time.
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Arrival Lose Myself Time
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

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