dear roland, tan frances

I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me. ― The Pleasure of the Text

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The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself). ― The Pleasure of the Text

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All of a sudden it didn't bother me not being modern.

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Incoherence seems to me preferable to a distorting order.

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Le langage est une peau: je frotte mon langage contre l'autre.

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Where there is meaning, there is paradigm, and where there is paradigm (opposition), there is meaning . . . elliptically put: meaning rests on conflict (the choice of one term against another), and all conflict is generative of meaning: to choose one and refuse the other is always a sacrifice made to meaning, to produce meaning, to offer it to be consumed. ― The Neutral: Lecture Course at the College de France

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I am either lacerated or ill at ease
and occasionally subject to gusts of life ― Mourning Diary

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Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die. ― Writing Degree Zero

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