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There is no binary division to be made between what one says and what one does not say; we must try to determine the different…

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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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I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says,… — Julie Andrews
There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind. — Marcel Proust
I have stated it plain, an' my argument's thus ( It's all one, says the Sapper) There's only one Corps which is… — Rudyard Kipling
Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long… — Jean Dubuffet
Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. 'Love'… — David Foster Wallace
It is not so much the content of what one says as the way in which one says it. However important the… — Sylvia Ashton-Warner
I am God, says Love, for Love is God and God is Love, and this Soul is God by the condition of… — Marguerite Porete
No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the… — Ishmael Reed
Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break. — Chinua Achebe
One often speaks without seeing, without knowing, without meaning what one says. — Jacques Derrida
Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result. — Alan Turing

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