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The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

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Roland Barthes

Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or "filiation"), the Text is without a source - the "author" a mere "guest" at the reading of the Text.

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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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