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Thought is no longer theoretical. As soon as it functions it offends or reconciles, attracts or repels, breaks, dissociates, unites or reunites; it cannot help…

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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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The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels. — Simone de Beauvoir
The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut out none from the illumination… — Annie Besant
The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced… — Italo Calvino
All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all… — Charles Caleb Colton
He draws us to Himself by grace, by example, by power, by lovingness, by beauty, by pardon, and above all by the… — Frederick William Faber
Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks. — Roland Barthes
You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels. — David Antin
Rather than going after our walls and barriers with a sledgehammer, we pay attention to them. With gentleness and honesty, we move… — Pema Chodron
An object imbued with intent — it has power, it's treasure, we're drawn to it. An object devoid of intent — it's… — John Hockenberry
I have met a great celebrity, Madame Dudevant, known as George Sand... Her appearance is not to my liking. Indeed there is… — Frederic Chopin
There is silver blue, sky blue and thunder blue. Every colour holds within it a soul, which makes me happy or repels… — Emil Nolde

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