Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.

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!

The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me, who am here; the duration of the transmission is insignificant; the photograph of the missing being, as Sontag says, will touch me like the delayed rays of a star.

The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art.

...language is never innocent.

The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance.

I passed beyond the unreality of the thing represented, I entered crazily into the spectacle, into the image, taking into my arms what is dead, what is going to die.