“The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.”
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“Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?”
― A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
― A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
“I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.”
― The Pleasure of the Text
― The Pleasure of the Text
“What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.”
― Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography [Paperback]
― Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography [Paperback]
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