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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all…
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.
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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much…
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of…
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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…
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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that…
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There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is…
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To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of…
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Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A…
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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is…
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Coitus can scarcely be said to take place in a vacuum; although of itself it appears a biological and physical activity, it…
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Coitus is random, children are definite.
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After coitus every animal is sad, except the human female and the rooster.
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The doctors of antiquity have affirmed that love is a passion that resembles a melancholy disease. The physician Rasis prescribed, therefore, in…
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All animals are sad after coitus except the female human and the rooster.
— Galen
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Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even…
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Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family…
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It is as if the Photograph always carries its referent with itself, both affected by the same amorous or funereal immobility, at…
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He quietly groaned. Again and again, he’d witnessed this phenomenon with his friends. They got married. They were happy in that sated,…
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