"I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous."

Being, Temptation

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"I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous."

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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."

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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."

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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."

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"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself."

Henry Winkler, American Actor

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"Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me."

Lee Van Cleef, American Actor

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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."

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"Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now."

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"I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about."

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"I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior."

Time

"I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan."

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"No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language."

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"Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology."

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"These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate."

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"As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scen."

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"Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution."

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"I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned."

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"Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school."

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"Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides."

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