In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.

The sentence completes its signification only with its last term.

But what Freud showed us… was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia.

I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being.

What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?

The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.

I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think. I am not whenever I am the plaything of my thought; I think of what I am where I do not think to think.