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• A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
• Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all…
• There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
• I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.
• To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much…
• What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of…
• Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or…
• Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that…
• There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is…
• To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of…
• Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A…
• 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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