

“Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.”
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“Being at one is godlike and good, but human, too human, the mania
Which insists that there is only the One, one country, one truth and one way.”
― Selected Poems and Fragments
Which insists that there is only the One, one country, one truth and one way.”
― Selected Poems and Fragments

“You find my words dark. Darkness is in our souls, do you not think?”
― Ulysses
― Ulysses

“French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood. Thus we go from one absurdity to another - Stalinism, existentialism. Lacan, Derrida - some of them obscene ( Stalinism), some simply infantile and ridiculous ( Lacan, Derrida). What is striking, however, is the pomposity and self-importance, at each stage.”
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