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... we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we are constrained, we…

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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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What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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Aboriginal people are key because they have a different sense of where we belong and how we interact with nature. — David Suzuki
... we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we… — Michel Foucault
The essential discovery of maturity has little if anything to do with information about the names, the locations, and the sequence of… — Walter Lippmann
All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or… — Angelina Jolie

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