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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.
— Roland Barthes (via hellyeahbooks)
NOW_HERE
2012/01/28
another ghost in the fogs of memory
“The imperfect is the tense of fascination. The exhausting lure of memory. We remember pathetically, punctually, in order to be unhappy/happy.”
“Ultimately — or at the limit — in order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close your eyes. ‘The necessary condition for an image is sight,’Janouch told Kafka; and Kafka smiled and replied: ‘We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.”
—Roland Barthes
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