I Believe In The Value

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.

These Years Of The Ecole Normale Were An Ordeal. Nothing Was Handed To Me On The First Try.

Within The University... You Can Study Without Waiting For Any Efficient Or Immediate Result. You May Search, Just For The Sake Of Searching, And Try For The Sake Of Trying. So There Is A Possibility Of What I Would Call Playing. It's Perhaps The Only Place Within Society Where Play Is Possible To Such An Extent.

I’m No Good For Anything Except Taking The World Apart And Putting It Together Again (and I Manage The Latter Less And Less Frequently).

The Poet…is The Man Of Metaphor: While The Philosopher Is Interested Only In The Truth Of Meaning, Beyond Even Signs And Names, And The Sophist Manipulates Empty Signs…the Poet Plays On The Multiplicity Of Signifieds.