The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past … - Roland Barthes

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The Management of money is, in much, the management of self. If heaven allotted to each man seven guardian angels, five of them, at least, would be found night and day hovering over his pockets.

Roland Barthes

The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art.

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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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The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.

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Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

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Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.

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. . . language is never innocent.

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The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.

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It takes strength to show vulnerability.

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Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast.

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