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To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance – and the body is our anchorage in the world.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

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
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
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
It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
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Insane Mission Remove
The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis of time.
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Close Destroy Instant Open Photograph Time
The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.
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Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.
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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
It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.
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Certain Essence Establishment Reservation
To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
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Explanation Obscure
I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.
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Language Live Myself Talk
The flesh is at the heart of the world.
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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
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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My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.
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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