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Roland Barthes

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
A picture is never anything but its own plural description.
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Description Photograph Plural
The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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Culture Drawing Text
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
Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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Hard Time Ourselves Suffering
The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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Fashion Time Value
Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a Right, the natural right of the present over the past.
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Experience Fashion Past Present Refusal
Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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Fantasy Greatness Mythology Photography
To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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Food Moral Rare Representation
As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.
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Exploration Myself Photography Question Wound
The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
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Creation Education School
A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which abolishes mythic time; and the photograph is a certain but fugitive testimony.
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History Invention Photography Review
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
Why is it better to last than to burn?
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Better Burn Last Myself
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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