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.
MAURICE MERLEAU PONTYLike 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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My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.
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The sensate body possesses an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis.
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The world is the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.
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It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.
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I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.
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The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.
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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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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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It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one “to have his passion as a profession.
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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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We know not through our intellect but through our experience.
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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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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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The flesh is at the heart of the world.
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The body is our general medium for having a world.
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