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“The real is what resists symbolization absolutely.”
― The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book 1, Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-1954
― The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book 1, Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-1954

“We are writing this book as a rhizome. It is composed of plateaus. We have given it a circular form, but only for laughs. Each morning we would wake up, and each of us would ask himself what plateau he was going to tackle, writing five lines here, ten there. We had hallucinatory experiences, we watched lines leave one plateau and proceed to another like columns of tiny ants.”
― A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
― A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
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“You live on the surface," Lia told me years later. "You sometimes seem profound, but it's only because you piece a lot of surfaces together to create the impression of depth, solidity. That solidity would collapse if you try to stand it up.”
― Foucault’s Pendulum
― Foucault’s Pendulum

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