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The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis of time.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.
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Silence Thread Tissue
I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.
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Expression Facial Live Myself
The flesh is at the heart of the world.
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Heart World
Thinking which displaces, or otherwise defines, the sacred has been called atheistic, and that philosophy which does not place it here or there, like a thing, but at the joining of things and words, will always be exposed to this reproach without ever being touched by it.
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Atheist Definition Join Place Thinking Touch Word
Language transcends us and yet we speak.
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Language Talk Transcend
To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
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Explanation Obscure
The world is nothing but ‘world-as-meaning.
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Meaning World
Montaigne puts not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.
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Existence Human Satisfaction Understand
I will never know how you see red and you will never know how I see it. But this separation of consciousness is recognized only after a failure of communication, and our first movement is to believe in an undivided being between us.
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Color Consciousness Division Failure Recognition Separate Sight
The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him.
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Believe Children Hesitate Live World
The world is the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions.
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Natural Perception Thinking World
Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has only to do with the language, and it is thus that he suddenly finds himself surrounded by sense.
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Language Material Surround Weave Work Writing
Machiavelli is the complete contrary of a machiavellian, since he describes the tricks of power and gives the whole show away. The seducer and the politician, who live in the dialectic and have a feeling and instinct for it, try their best to keep it hidden.
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Complete Conflict Feeling Hide Politics Show
The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.
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Art Body Compare Object Work
The philosopher will ask himself if the criticism we are now suggesting is not the philosophy which presses to the limit that criticism of false gods which Christianity has introduced into our history.
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Criticism History Introduction Limitation Ourselves Philosophy
My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.
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Myself Teaching Thinking Word