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"In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it."
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"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."
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"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?"
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"Follow the dreams that your heart visualizes, as what you actually see is just an illusion of temporary contentment."
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"Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness."
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"Our imagination and hope become a reality if we have the courage to believe and take action to realize them."
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"Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams."
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"Dream in a pragmatic way."
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"I would wonder if you could be a hero or heroine if you did not live in deep time, that is, Past, present, and future all at once."
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"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."
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"You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?""
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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."
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"Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture."
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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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"My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible."
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"As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scen."
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"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."
Life

"The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown."
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"In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it."
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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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"Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution."
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