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The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that!

Roland Barthes

Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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Fantasy Greatness Mythology Photography
How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?
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Beyond Image Meaning
We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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Forget Ourselves Settle
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
The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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Creation Life Meaning
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
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
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
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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Patience Power Wait
Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
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Age Experience Old Specific Vision
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
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
We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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Common Deep Intelligence Known Name Philosophy Sense War
Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
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Literature Poet Talk Writing
Literature is the question minus the answer.
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Answer Literature Question
He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.
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Himself Life Reading Story

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