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If all of mathematics disappeared, physics would be set back by exactly one week.

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Roland Barthes

Death of the Father would deprive literature of many of its pleasures. If there is no longer a Father, why tell stories? Doesn't every narrative lead back to Oedipus? Isn't storytelling always a way of searching for one's origin, speaking one's conflicts with the Law, entering into the dialectic of tenderness and hatred?

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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

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The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.

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Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

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Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.

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. . . language is never innocent.

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