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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold
I hate working out - I have to mentally push myself through it. I can get very whiny, saying things like, 'I… — Christina Aguilera
I'm on the record as saying things like I think it's important for people to understand their Bible stories, not because I'm… — Julia Gillard
It doesn't help anyone to judge their happiness or career by looking at where others may or may not be. Dad said… — James Corden
I had some difficult times when I first moved to Los Angeles when people would tell me I was saying things wrong.… — Lily Collins
And that is how I employ my time in cinema, saying things about people who I think have touched us in terms… — Richard Attenborough
I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning… — Art Garfunkel
Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git. — Alexei Sayle
So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing… — Lionel Richie
Im an extremist so Im either hated or loved. I think its down to when I first got to Formula One not… — Lewis Hamilton
I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say. — Rod Serling
I don't find a lot of people actually saying things through music any longer. They are not trying to say anything with… — Robben Ford

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