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" A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see. "
See
Photograph
Invisible
" For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture. "
Long
Better
Too
" I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient. "
Discourse
Call
Blame
" I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun. "
Fun
Far
Life
" 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. "
Language
Skin
Words
" Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive. "
Speech
Language
Power
" Literature is the question minus the answer. "
Question
Minus
Literature
" 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. "
Worth
Only
Saying
" Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion. "
Nor
Myth
Neither
" The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning. "
New
Culture
Meaning
" The New is not a fashion, it is a value. "
Fashion
New
Value
" The photographic image... is a message without a code. "
Image
Without
Message
" 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! "
Short
Policy
Great
" There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. "
Escape
Society
Present
" The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man. "
Street
Block
Man
" Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula. "
Knowledge
Through
Image
" To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality. "
Nature
Both
Eat
" 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. "
Language
Love Is
Try
" What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth. "
Well
Claim
Truth
" What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself. "
Wants
Passion
Itself
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