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As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scen.
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In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays.
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To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
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Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.
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I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior.
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The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.
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I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.
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I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned.
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I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.
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In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.
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I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.
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