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"To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality."
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"Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don't pluck them!"

"Eagle's flight of loneliness soars so high Around its sigh, no more alone the sky Other birds remain away, clouds pass byBetween shrouds of life and haze sun rays die."

"The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing."

"Nature is the guardian of Africa. While the sun lights the African sky in day time, the moon begs the world to help her lighting Africa in the night."

"Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves."

"The earth is a great piece of stupidity."

"Wild animals are less wild and more human than many humans of this world."

"All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide;but a hidden star can still be smiling at night's black spell on darkness, beguiling."
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"Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire."


"I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun."


"I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient."


"To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished."


"Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive."


"The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!"


"The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning."
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