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> [For me, the constitutive element of an affair is the secrecy. It is the secrecy that leads to the lying, to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/esther-perel/for-me-the-constitutive-element-of-an-affair-is-the-secrecy-it-is-the/)

[Esther Perel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/esther-perel/)

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> [To be free means to be lacking in constitutive identity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jose-ortega-y-gasset/to-be-free-means-to-be-lacking-in-constitutive-identity/)

[Jose Ortega y Gasset](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jose-ortega-y-gasset/)

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> [Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/art-is-constitutive-the-artist-determines-beauty-he-does-not-take-it/)

[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/)

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> [“institutional facts in general require language because the language is partly constitutive of the facts. But”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-rogers-searle/institutional-facts-in-general-require-language-because-the-language/)

[John Rogers Searle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-rogers-searle/)

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> [What is constitutive is the action that divides madness, and not the science elaborated once this division is made.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/what-is-constitutive-is-the-action-that-divides-madness-and-not-the/)

[Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/)

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> [For me, music is in no way ornamental or decorative, it's constitutive of who I am.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/for-me-music-is-in-no-way-ornamental-or-decorative-it-s-constitutive-2/)

[Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c8e/cornel-west-708_music_for-me-music-is-in-no-way-ornamental-or_2484162.jpg)

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