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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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"Dreaming pleasantly is spiritual."

"I will pursue the dream, no matter how long it takes to fulfil it."

"I will never give up on my dreams. I have the patient to wait and work hard for its fulfillment."

"Dream as if everything is possible."

"I agree that dreaming in not a crime, so I can dream as big as I can."
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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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays."

"I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles."

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

"I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner."

"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."

"The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound."
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