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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."
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"I want love, passion, honesty, and companionship... sex that drives me crazy and conversation that drives me sane."
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"Often, men want money to get women, or to use women to get money, or both at the same time."
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"Any type of desire is beggary. One who is without any desire is called 'Gnani' [the enlightened one]."
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"The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest."
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"The eye of a man is never satisfied with seeing."
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"Despite all of our incessant tinkering, we can't manufacture the things we most desperately need. And if perchance we do, they will never be more than pathetically emaciated facsimiles that will leave us emaciated. And until we finally realize that we can only 'find' these things, we will never sense any compulsion to 'find' God."
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"If you can desire it, you can behold it."
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"When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want."
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"As long as there is greed (desire) for even a single situation, one will have to come back into the world and wandering will continue until then."
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"Desires move us from one station to another in this life while we search for beauty, love, and happiness."
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"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."
Time
"These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try."
Writing
"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."
Dream
"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."
Philosophy
"I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous."
Being
"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
"The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages."
Media
"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."
Experience
"My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible."
Media
"Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture."
Cultural
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