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The skin is a variety of contingency: in it, through it, with it, the world and my body touch each other, the feeling and the felt, it defines their common edge. Contingency means common tangency: in it the world and the body intersect and caress each other. I do not wish to call the place in which I live a medium, I prefer to say that things mingle with each other and that I am no exception to that. I mix with the world which mixes with me. Skin intervenes between several things in the world and makes them mingle.
Voyaging begins when one burns one's boats, adventures begin with a shipwreck.
Now it could be said that he who cheats and deceits does so because he wants to win. So the first attribute of God consists in being indifferent to winning.
Detach yourself from notions of winning or losing, be indifferent to victory or loss, you will enter into science, observation, discovery and thought.
We no longer live addicted to speech; having lost our senses, now we are going to lose language, too. We will be addicted to data, naturally. Not data that comes from the world, or from language, but encoded data. To know is to inform oneself. Information is becoming our primary and universal addiction.
What philosophy worthy of the name has truly been able to avoid the link between poem and theorem?
Smell and taste differentiate, whereas language, like sight and hearing, integrates.
Only philosophy can go deep enough to show that literature goes still deeper than philosophy
