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"Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion."
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"Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different."
"Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie."
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"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."
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"I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient."
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"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."
"There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it."
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