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"We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols."
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"When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it."
"The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, "is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life."
"Be careful how you use your words, how you build them and how people will understand them!?"
"What's the meaning of ignore? You hear somebody, but you never asnwer to him!"
"Why certainly, words possess power. They do! But releasing their magic requires combining and arranging those words in the right order."
"Your body is always wherever it is; but your mind, often somewhere else! Thus, when a person talks to you, he often talks to your body, not to your mind!"
"Dialect words - those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel."
"But one only woke people if one knew what one wanted to say to them. And she wanted to say not one thing, but everything."
"Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It's not the word count but the impact of those words that counts."
"If you respect & care about someone, give him/her direct feedback in his/her face. Please don't be coward and use proxies! Be a man/woman!!!"
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"What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?"
"As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension."
"Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters."
"Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there."
"Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it."
"For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence."
"In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth."
"Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly."
"The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible."
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