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tautology dispenses us from having ideas, but at the same time prides itself on making this license into a stern morality; whence its success: laziness is promoted to the rank of rigor. Racine is Racine: admirable security of nothingness.

...our popular press has hastily spirited away the unaccustomed object by reducing it to a symbol. As soon as it meant something it was less dangerous. And the more apparently the criticism... was addressed to a mass audience (Match, France Soir), the more it has insisted on that play's symbolic character: be reassured, it's only a symbol, the [unaccustomed object] simply signifies...

Most boats of legend or fiction enact, in this regard like the Nautilus, the theme of a beloved enclosure, for it suffices a man to conceive his ship as a human habitat for him to organize the delights of a smooth, round universe of which, moreover an entire nautical morality immediately makes him into the god, master, and owner (solemaster on board, etc.)

By [this gesture] each of us regains the ideality of a world at the mercy of a purely human gestuary, a world which will no longer slacken under the fetters of language: gangsters and gods do not speak, they nod their heads and all is done.

No, syntax, vocabulary, most of the elementary, analytical materials of language blindly seek one another without ever meeting, but no one pays the slightest attention: Etes-vous allé au pont? --Allée? Il n'y a pas d'allée, je le sais, j'y suis été.

To see someone not seeing is the best way of seeing intensely what he does not see

The sign ought to present itself in only two extreme forms: either frankly intellectual, reduced by its distance to a kind of algebra... or else deeply rooted, somehow invented on each occasion, presenting and inward and secret face, the signal of a moment and no longer of a concept

The Harcourt actor is a god; gods never do anything, they're caught in repose.