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Within The University... You Can Study Without Waiting For Any Efficient Or Immediate Result. You May Search, Just For The Sake Of Searching, And Try For The Sake Of Trying. So There Is A Possibility Of What I Would Call Playing. It's Perhaps The Only Place Within Society Where Play Is Possible To Such An Extent.

No One Gets Angry At A Mathematician Or A Physicist Whom He Or She Doesn't Understand, Or At Someone Who Speaks A Foreign Language, But Rather At Someone Who Tampers With Your Own Language.

As Soon As There Is Language, Generality Has Entered The Scene.

If You Read Philosophical Texts Of The Tradition, You'll Notice They Almost Never Said 'i,' And Didn't Speak In The First Person. From Aristotle To Heidegger, They Try To Consider Their Own Lives As Something Marginal Or Accidental. What Was Essential Was Their Teaching And Their Thinking. Biography Is Something Empirical And Outside, And Is Considered An Accident That Isn't Necessarily Or Essentially Linked To The Philosophical Activity Or System.

These Years Of The Ecole Normale Were An Ordeal. Nothing Was Handed To Me On The First Try.