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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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The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him.
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Believe Children Hesitate Live World
Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world, as a gesture sometimes bears the whole truth about a man.
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End Man Meaning Rule Service Talk
The flesh is at the heart of the world.
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Heart World
To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
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Explanation Obscure
Socrates reminds us that it is not the same thing, but almost the opposite, to understand religion and to accept it.
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Acceptance Religion Reminder Understand
It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.
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Certain Essence Establishment Reservation
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
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
We must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of objects, but as a permanent field or dimension of existence.
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Dimension Discover Existence Natural Object World
The sensate body possesses an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis.
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Art Body Interrogate Possession
I am not in front of my body, I am in it or rather I am it… If we can still speak of interpretation in relation to the perception of one’s own body, we shall have to say that it interprets itself.
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Body Oneself Perception Relation Talk
I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.
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Language Live Myself Talk
It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
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Insane Mission Remove
Nothing determines me from outside, not because nothing acts upon me, but, on the contrary, because I am from the start outside myself and open to the world.
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Determination Open Start World
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
My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.
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Myself Teaching Thinking Word