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"Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion."
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"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."
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"Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him."
"When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door."
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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."
"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."
"The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man."
"What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth."
"Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it."
"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 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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