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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

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The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

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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 trembles with desire.

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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

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I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.

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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

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The photographic image... is a message without a code.

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To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Critic

Born: November 12th, 1915

Died: March 25th, 1980

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