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The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice…

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Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its…
To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in…
Truth is not by nature free-nor error servile-its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.
It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.
The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines…
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
People can tolerate two homosexuals they see leaving together, but the next day they're smiling, holding hands, tenderly embracing one another, then…
Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the…
I wasn't always smart, I was actually very stupid in school [T]here was a boy who was very attractive who was even…
I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology…
What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a…
It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power)…

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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable… — A. S. Byatt
Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders… — Henry Ward Beecher
Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode… — Abraham Lincoln
What good are Greek, commentaries, insight, gift, and all the rest, if there is no heart for Christ? — Jim Elliot
I write music, it’s performed. After all, my music says it all. It doesn’t need historical and hysterical commentaries. In the long… — Dmitri Shostakovich
Portraits of the Mind is a remarkable book that combines beautifully reproduced illustrations of the nervous system as it has been visualized… — Unknown Author
I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept. — Abel Ferrara
I've recently enjoyed the Paul Thomas Anderson commentaries and the David Fincher commentaries. — Jay Roach
While facts never become obsolete or stale, commentaries always do. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
It is amazing how much light the Bible shines on commentaries — Howard G. Hendricks
Do not study commentaries, lesson helps or other books about the Bible: study the Bible itself. Do not study about the Bible,… — Reuben Archer Torrey
One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category.… — Faye Wattleton

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