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"Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters."
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"In my opinion, we should search for a completely different flying machine, based on other flying principles."

"As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me."

"The stars are the great Gothic churches: spires, naves, delicate flying buttresses, massive conventional buttresses, stained glass and grandeur, grandeur, grandeur."

"I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman."

"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."

"Everything has changed. The flying changed. The airports have changed."

"The transformation scene, where man is becoming insect and insect has become at least man and beyond that - a flying, godlike, shimmering, diaphanous, beautiful creature."
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"What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?"

"In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth."

"The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience."

"Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it."

"Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary."

"The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!"

"A geometry implies the heterogeneity of locus, namely that there is a locus of the Other. Regarding this locus of the Other, of one sex as Other, as absolute Other, what does the most recent development in topology allow us to posit?"

"Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless."

"As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension."
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