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• Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.
• Surely one zoo in the world should have the courage to draw the ultimate conclusion about our ancestry? A cage with Homo…
• Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases.
• So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books…
• The world is a never-ending cross-reference.
• Man has been thrown into the world. It had always made him think of Icarus and those other great tumblers, Ixion, Phaeton,…
• Man is a sad mammal that combs its hair.
• I find it unbearable to need a body in order to exist.
• She had nothing to do all day ... but did it with the greatest possible speed.
• I have never cared much for people. Most of them are cowards, conformists, muddleheads, moneygrubbers, and they infect each other.
• I am a hindrance to the world, and the world is a hindrance to me.
• As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional, perhaps permanent,…

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