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![“[Raymond Roussel] said that after his first book he expected that the next morning there would be a kind of aura around his person and that everyone in the street would be able to see that he had written a book. This is the obscure desire harboured by everyone who writes. It is true that the first…” quote by Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1bb/michel-foucault-1134_able_raymond-roussel-said-that-after-his-firs_1123161.jpg)
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