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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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Perversity is the muse of modern literature.
— Susan Sontag
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Prior to Valentinus, those who follow Valentinus had no existence. Nor did those from Marcion exist before Marcion. Nor, in short, did…
— Irenaeus of Lyons
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There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.
— Octave Mirbeau
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Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which…
— Clifford D. Simak
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Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance --
— Robert A. Heinlein
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I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity…
— Russell Kirk
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To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily…
— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.
— William James
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Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples…
— Barbara Tuchman
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Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence.
— Dave Hickey
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I could be mistaken, but I believe the majority of artists are perverts, and that inspiration springs from the seat of perversity;…
— James Jean
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Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice,…
— Marcel Proust
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