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"As soon as I had proved this and, of course, also the normal pointing action and reactions in all other extremities and joints, I stopped the experiment."
"Don't try to do great thing, but don't forget to do small things with great care and great love."
"Always act as if you are living the epitome of a magnificent life."
"In order to deliver people we need to have a strategy, to have a plan of deliverance."
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"Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure."
"Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being."
"The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature."
"Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place."
"Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means."
"The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements."
"The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language."
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