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It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one “to have his passion as a profession.

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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 body is our general medium for having a world.
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Body Medium World
It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one “to have his passion as a profession.
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Fortune Greatness Passion Professional
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
It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
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Insane Mission Remove
My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.
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Myself Teaching Thinking Word
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 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
The number and richness of man’s signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could be termed signifieds. The symbolic function must always precede its object and does not encounter reality except when it precedes it into the imaginary.
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Definition Function Imagination Man Object Reality Rich
We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.
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Silence Thread Tissue
Language transcends us and yet we speak.
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Language Talk Transcend
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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History Meaning Name World
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
Our own body is in the world as the heart is in the organism: it keeps the visible spectacle constantly alive, it breathes life into it and sustains it inwardly, and with it forms a system.
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Body Breathe Form Heart Life System Visible 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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Complete Conflict Feeling Hide Politics Show