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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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"The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties."
"The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole."
"So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig."
"I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more."
"The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one."
"We should not clap our hands and mourn, for he is out of trouble. You are still in it."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound."
"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."
"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 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."
"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."
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