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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

Our body is not in space like things; it inhabits or haunts space. It applies itself to space like a hand to an instrument. And when we wish to move about, we do not move the body as we move an object.
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Body Instrument Move Object Space
It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
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Insane Mission Remove
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
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
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
The world is nothing but ‘world-as-meaning.
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Meaning World
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 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 to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.
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Art Body Compare Object Work
It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.
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Certain Essence Establishment Reservation
We know not through our intellect but through our experience.
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Experience Intellectual Ourselves
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
The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.
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Existence Foundation Value 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
The body is our general medium for having a world.
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Body Medium World
We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.
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Silence Thread Tissue