“Rien n'est plus troublant que les mouvements incessants de ce qui semble immobile. p214 (Minuit)”

“Si vous êtes pris dans le rêve de l‘autre; vous êtez foutus.”

“Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality”

“The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.”

“To affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives.”

“The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.”

“Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.”