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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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Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.

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No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

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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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Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.

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I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.

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I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.

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To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

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We are all mediators, translators.

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Who ever said that one was born just once?

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: July 15th, 1930

Died: October 8th, 2004

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