I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.

The only attitude (the only politics--judicial, medical, pedagogical and so forth) I would absolutely condemn is one which, directly or indirectly, cuts off the possibility of an essentially interminable questioning, that is, an effective and thus transforming questioning.

There is nothing outside the text

In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.

The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.

I would like to write you so simply, so simply, so simply. Without having anything ever catch the eye, excepting yours alone, ... so that above all the language remains self-evidently secret, as if it were being invented at every step, and as if it were burning immediately

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