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“There is no soul so vile, no heart so barbarous, that it is not susceptible of some kind of attachment.”

“Our greatest sufferings do not lie in the present, as intuitive representations or immediate feeling, but rather in reason, as abstract concepts, tormenting thoughts.”

“I’m not delusional enough to claim that a novel is going to explode the value systems, politics, economics, and forms of knowledge that have produced the extinction era, nor that literature will not go extinct if humans do. But on good days I do think that fiction—which might not come in the form of a novel at all—works: as in, it performs a type of labor in service of change, for better or for worse. Its effects are not linear, one-to-one, or necessarily calculable, and should not be measured as such. No cause-and-effect equation can account for them. Fictions are myriad small explosions with far-reaching fragments.”

[B. Two series of questions confront a pathological anatomy that wishes to be based on a nosology: the connexion between synchronic and diachronic, and the relation of death to life and disease - cont’d]

“Style, in a great writer, is always a style of life too, not anything at all personal, but inventing a possibility of life, a way of existing. It’s strange how people sometimes say that philosophers have no style, or that they write badly. It can only be because they don’t read them. In France alone, Descartes, Malebranche, Maine de Biran, Bergson, even Auguste Comte in his Balzacian aspect, are stylists. And Foucault also belongs to this tradition, he’s a great stylist. Concepts take on with him a rhythmic quality, or, as in the strange dialogues with himself with which he closes some of his books, a contrapuntal one. His syntax accumulates the mirrorings and scintillations of the visible but also twists like a whip, folding up and unfolding, or cracking to the rhythm of its utterances.”

“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”

“The aim of language is to communicate, to impart to others the results one has obtained. As I talk, I reveal the situation. I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.”

“This intensive way of reading, in contact with what’s outside book, as a flow meeting other flows, one machine among others, as a series of experiments for each reader in the midst of events that have nothing to do with books, as tearing the book into pieces, getting it to interact with other things, absolutely anything is reading with love.”