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Once leprosy had gone, and the figure of the leper was no more than a distant memory, these structures still remained. The game of exclusion…

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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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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I repeat that the poor, the sufferers from leprosy, the rejected, the alcoholics, whom we serve, are beautiful people. Many of them… — Mother Teresa
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling or being unwanted, uncared for, deserted by… — Mother Teresa
Her skin was white as leprosy. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
[Naaman] dipped himself," it says, "seven times in Jordan." It was not for nothing that Naaman of old, when suffering from leprosy,… — Irenaeus of Lyons
It has always been my concern to touch people with leprosy, trying to show in a simple action that they are not… — Princess Diana
Nature is that lovely lady to whom we owe polio, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer. — Unknown Author
Hansen’s disease”—that’s the other modern name, I guess, for leprosy—“Hansen’s disease was so rare in the America that in 40 years only… — Lou Dobbs
I took up leprosy work not to help anyone, but to overcome that fear in my life. That it worked out good… — Baba Amte
Joy is more infectious than leprosy — Baba Amte
A Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By the simple… — L. Ron Hubbard
Let us not be afraid to be humble, small, helpless to prove our love for God. The cup of water you give… — Mother Teresa

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