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Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the sea with its…

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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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When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not… — John Henrik Clarke
Every day is a crossroads. Every day is a chance to change your life and our world for the better. — Hillary Clinton
We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are… — Carl Sagan
I know you're supposed to set goals for yourself. I see all that motivational stuff on television. Think about the future, what's… — Cassandra Wilson
I stood at a crossroads and fate came to meet me. — Liz Greene
Man is born as a seed; he can become a flower, he may not. It all depends on you, what you do… — Rajneesh
I'm always looking for those places where you can slam really disparate people up against one another, and they have to deal… — Jenji Kohan
We're at the crossroads, ... where we need to win to stay alive. — Randy Johnson
Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction… — Eudora Welty
When you are having trouble making a decision or are at a crossroads in your life and are confused about which path… — Jacklyn Zeman
The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things...… — Shelby Foote
I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now… — Taryn Manning

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