"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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"The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it."

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"The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it."

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"Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing."

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"When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem."

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"As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scen."

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"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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"In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it."

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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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"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."

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"Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school."

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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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"No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language."

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