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"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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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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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."
"The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages."
"I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous."
"Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try."
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