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No abstraction, no ideality has never been neither in position to produce a real action nor, by consequence, what only represents it.

— Michel Henry

Aucune abstraction, aucune idéalité n'a jamais été en mesure de produire une action réelle ni, par conséquent, ce qui ne fait que la figurer.

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Michel Henry, Du communisme au capitalisme, éd. Odile Jacob, 1990, p. 144

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