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To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for origin.

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Origin

Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack to the feast, from the conversation at the local cafT to the speech at a formal dinner.
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Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.

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He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.
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Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.

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Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.
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Language Prevent
The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that!

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The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that!
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Reproduction Subject
Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.

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Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.

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The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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When we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead.

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When we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead.
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Return
Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.

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Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
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Language Position
Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.

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Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
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I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.

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I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.
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The realists do not take the photograph for a ‘copy’ of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art.

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The realists do not take the photograph for a ‘copy’ of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art.
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We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.

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We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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Known Name
Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.

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Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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Escape Way
A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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Invisible See

To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for origin.

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