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I see photographs everywhere… yet among those which had been selected, evaluated, approved, collected in albums or magazines and which had thereby passed through the filter of culture, I realized that some provoked tiny jubilations, as if they referred to a stilled center, an erotic or lacerating value buried in myself; and that others were so indifferent to me that by dint of seeing them multiply like some weed, I felt a kind of aversion toward them, even of irritation.

- Barthes

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