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Quotes by Monique Wittig

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They say, hell, let the earth become a vast hell destroying killing and setting fire to the buildings of men, to theatres, national assemblies, to museums, libraries, prisons, psychiatric hospitals, old and new, from which they free the slaves.
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The class struggle is precisely that which resolves the contradictions between two opposed classes by abolishing them at the same time that it constitutes and reveals them as classes.
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The bearers of fables are very welcome.
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The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft.
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They say that oppression engenders hate. They are heard on all sides crying hate hate.
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The basic agreement between human beings, indeed what makes them human and makes them social, is language.
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I feel a near passion for intelligence at grips with itself and not letting go.
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I refuse to pronounce the names of possession and nonpossession.
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Not only do we naturalize history, but also consequently we naturalize the social phenomena which express our oppression, making change impossible.
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Remember. Or, failing that, invent.
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