I feel a near passion for intelligence at grips with itself and not letting go.
Language casts sheaves of reality upon the social body, stamping it and violently shaping it.
One is a writer, or one is not.
The class struggle is precisely that which resolves the contradictions between two opposed classes by abolishing them at the same time that it constitutes and reveals them as classes.
The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft.
It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch.