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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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I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you're the…
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All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.
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Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing
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A grid is like underwear, you wear it but it's not to be exposed.
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The grid is going to be a very different system in 2020, 2030. We keep thinking that we want it to be…
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In the 21st century, hundreds of millions-and eventually billions-of human beings will transform their buildings into power plants to harvest renewable energies…
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I go on the bus, I walk. A friend left his car recently at my house and I took it out one…
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The grid system is an aid, not a guarantee. It permits a number of possible uses and each designer can look for…
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Before I got in the car, I was puking all over the place and on the grid. I was just a shaking…
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