If I only did what I can do, I wouldn't do anything

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

I believe in the value of the book, which keeps something irreplaceable, and in the necessity of fighting to secure its respect.

I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.

If you read philosophical texts of the tradition, you'll notice they almost never said 'I,' and didn't speak in the first person. From Aristotle to Heidegger, they try to consider their own lives as something marginal or accidental. What was essential was their teaching and their thinking. Biography is something empirical and outside, and is considered an accident that isn't necessarily or essentially linked to the philosophical activity or system.

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.

Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.