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• The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
• Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless…
• In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
• It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
• A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
• The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the…
• The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
• The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced…
• What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking…
• It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually reacquire colors,…
• The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result…
• The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city.

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