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The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.

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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 fingers at the tip of my words. My language tr...more

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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 fingers at the tip of my words. My language tr...more

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You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its suddenness; and of all things, it is the scene which...more

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I can do everything with my language but not with my body. What I hide by my language, my body utters. I can deliberately mold my message, not my voic...more

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You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its suddenness; and of all things, it is the scene which...more

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Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the obsessive phenomenon of all amor...more

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The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance.

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Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.

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Where there is meaning, there is paradigm, and where there is paradigm (opposition), there is meaning . . . elliptically put: meaning rests on conflic...more

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If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly fri...more

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Don’t bleach language, savour it instead. Stroke it gently or even groom it, but don’t “purify” it.

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Today, information: pulverized, nonhierarchized, dealing with everything: nothing is protected from information and at the same time nothing is open t...more