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"These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate."
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"I can eat you at breakfast, not because I am a monster; it is only because you are too cute and yummy."
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"Confidence, is like a belt worn around the waist. Wear it too tight, you come off cocky and arrogant, wear it too loose, you come off timid and a walk over, but wear it fit and snug, it will uphold you in every step of the way."
"I always knew he was selfish and self-indulgent and kind of lazy, those are practically prerequisites for playing lead guitar."
"I'm genetically programmed to be a terrible person."
"How can a man's candour be seen in all its lustre unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he had an agreeable confidence that his faults were all of a generous kind-impetuous, arm-blooded, leonine; never crawling, crafty, reptilian."
"Don't ignore me. I only get more annoying."
"Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous."
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"Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology."
"Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution."
"The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages."
"I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner."
"In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays."
"I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior."
"I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan."
"I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles."
"I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous."
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