You and I know (don’t we?), there is a thing and the idea of it. An other, an envy that looks human — more than, I give it such luster even it takes the air out of me — a self and an idea of it and another.
“Contrary to what phenomenology — which is always phenomenology of perception — has tried to make us believe, contrary to what our desire cannot fail to be tempted into believing, the thing itself always escapes.”