Le langage est une peau: je frotte mon langage contre l'autre. Language is a skin; I rub my language against another language.
Tout refus du langage est une mort. Any refusal of language is a death.
Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.
The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself).
...language is never innocent.
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.