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"I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say."
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"All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing."
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"Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable."
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"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot."
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"Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real."
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"I have nothing to declare except my genuis."
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"Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right."
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"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."
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"Think nothing done while aught remains to do."
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"Will this new play be good or bad? Nothing else matters. Nothing at all."
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"It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary."
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"What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology."
Negative

"All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is."
Encouragement

"Shakespeare is universal."
Literature

"What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering."
Literature

"No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem."
Literature

"We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are."
People

"If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit."
Work

"Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change."
Change

"If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people."
Work

"But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude."
Society
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