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"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."
"He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog."
"The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically."
"The world is the totality of facts, not of things."
"A girl who is interested in becoming a model must first accept the fact that she is the product. She must be ready to deal with a lot of rejection."
"In fact, I'll be taking a lot of Cathy Gale with me. I expect that was why I was chosen for the part."
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"Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives."
"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."
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"Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place."
"The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language."
"The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature."
"Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means."
"Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure."
"The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements."
"Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being."
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