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A picture is never anything but its own plural description.

Roland Barthes

The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering.
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Evil Forgiveness God Ourselves Suffering Weakness
The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
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Author Beginning Death Deep Writing
Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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Hard Time Ourselves Suffering
The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!
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Himself Imagination Policy Politics Trouble
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
I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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I Love You Myself Removal
Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
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Architecture Convenience Dreams Function Instrument
The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
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Creation Education School
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
A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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Invisible Photograph See
What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
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Existence Oneself Repeat Reproduction
The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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Culture Drawing Text
A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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Emotion Light Reserve Shadow
To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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Food Moral Rare Representation
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
Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
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Mourning Myself Suffering

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