The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
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It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.
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The primordial experiences that are transmitted through art and history are not to be grasped from the points of view of these forms of consciousness.
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In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.
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