"I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles."

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"I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles."

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"I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned."

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"These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try."

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"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."

Desire

"Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture."

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"Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides."

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"The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown."

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