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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

I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
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Interesting Language Myself Seduce Wound
Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
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Evidence Literature Trouble Understand
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
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
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
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
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Desire Fingers Language Myself Skin Tremble Word
The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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Creation Life Meaning
Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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Fragile Soft Talk Tender Yourself
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
The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
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Creation Education School
Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
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Myself Painting Reality See
Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
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Camera Certificate Photograph Presence
It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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Character Consider Myself Novel
A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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Invisible Photograph See
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
To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought?
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Answer Hope Love Myself Question Yourself

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