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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…
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To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in…
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Truth is not by nature free-nor error servile-its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.
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It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.
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The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines…
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In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
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People can tolerate two homosexuals they see leaving together, but the next day they're smiling, holding hands, tenderly embracing one another, then…
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Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the…
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I wasn't always smart, I was actually very stupid in school [T]here was a boy who was very attractive who was even…
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I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology…
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What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a…
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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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Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that…
— Lionel Trilling
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It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power)…
— Michel Foucault
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I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way…
— Kerry Washington
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The end of the world: the wholesale internal introversion upon itself of the noosphere, which has simultaneously reached the uttermost limit of…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Meditation is a practice of detaching and then stopping ourselves from thinking; our thoughts are interruptions in the flow of awareness. Consciousness,…
— Frederick Lenz
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Happiness is only available with total acceptance of who you are, including all your fears, worries, and anxiety. It will be there…
— Lucinda Bassett
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Remind yourself of the value of detaching from work that's out of your hands and committing to new work that wants to…
— Eric Maisel
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I've gotten very good at detaching whenever I have to go away for three months, which I realize is hard on friends…
— Ashley Greene
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We have traditionally thought of knowing in terms of subject and object and have struggled to attain objectivity by detaching our subjectivity.…
— N. T. Wright
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Detaching with love is also valuable and loving in that it allows the another individual to follow their own path and make…
— Senoraroy
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When you're faced with challenges, when you feel that heaven is closed to you and those you hoped would help you seems…
— Ritu Ghatourey
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