"I rightly pass for an atheist."
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"Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution."
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"I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan."
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"No one will ever know from what secret I am writing and the fact that I say so changes nothing."
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"I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous."
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"I believe in the value of the book, which keeps something irreplaceable, and in the necessity of fighting to secure its respect."
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"These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try."
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