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"Ce n'est pas la lassitude qui met fin à l'amour, ou plutôt cette lassitude naît de l'impatience des corps qui se savent condamnés et qui voudraient vivre, dans le laps de temps qui leur est imparti, ne laisser passer aucune chance, ne laisser échapper aucune possibilité, qui voudraient utiliser au maximum ce temps de vie limité, déclinant, médiocre qui est le leur, et qui partant ne peuvent aimer qui que ce soit car tous les autres leurs paraissent limités, déclinants, médiocres."
— Michel Houellebecq (The Possibility of an Island)
— Michel Houellebecq (The Possibility of an Island)
"A paradox: the same century invented History and PHotography. But History is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discouse which abolishes mythic Time; and the Photograph is a certain but fugitive testimony; so that everything, today, prepares our race for this impotence: to be no longer able to conceive (i)duration(i), affectively or symbolically: the age of the Photograph is also the age of revolutions, contestations, assassinations, explosions, in short, of impatiences, of everything which denies ripening."
— Roland Barthes (Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography)
— Roland Barthes (Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography)
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