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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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I can't go on. I'll go on.
— Samuel Beckett
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It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to…
— Albert Camus
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Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
— Anita Brookner
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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…
— Michel Foucault
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John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism…
— Jack Kerouac
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The Theatre of the Absurd is a theatrical embodiment and manifestation of existentialism. It is part reality and part nightmare
— Martin Esslin
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Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.
— Delmore Schwartz
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To assert that the universe has a purpose implies the universe has intent. And intent implies a desired outcome. But who would…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Contrary to what our brains are telling us, there's no mystical force that imbues a winner with a streak of luck, nor…
— Charles Seife
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I found earthquakes, even when I was in them, deeply satisfying, abruptly revealed evidence of the scheme in action. That the schemes…
— Joan Didion
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All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness,…
— Albert Camus
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It's a waste to chase the pipe dream of a magical tiny theory that allows us to make quick and detailed calculations…
— Rudy Rucker
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