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[Raymond Roussel] said that after his first book he expected that the next morning there would be a kind of aura around his person and…

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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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If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to modify… — Halle Berry
Of course it is a very simple matter to identify genes which might modify intelligence or memory and start thinking about whether… — Robert Winston
We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print. — Mark Twain
Each and every one of us holds the amazing power to modify our life at any time we decide to do so. — J. Michael Bailey
Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements… — James Clerk Maxwell
I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract… — Abraham Lincoln
The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned… — Norman Cousins
... what is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of freewill, is the conviction that we have real power over the… — John Stuart Mill
It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it. — David Souter
Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards... Water shapes… — Sun Tzu
To begin with our knowledge grows in spots. ..What you first gain, ... is probably a small amount of new information, a… — William James
Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify… — Roger Bannister

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