"｡⁠:｡⁠:ﾟThe consciousness of oneself outside of oneself confers a primordial function on language, which links us with the outside. It also leads to the destruction of language. We can no longer speak. Not because we no longer have an interlocutor, but because we can no longer take his words seriously, and because his inwardness is purely epiphenomenal. We are not content with his revelations, which we take for superficial data, a deceptive appearance that does not know it is lying. No one is identical with himself. Beings do not have identity; faces are masks. Behind the faces which speak to us and to which we speak we look for the clockwork of a soul and its microscopic springs:ﾟﾟ⁠:⁠｡ 'Levinas'"