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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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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us…
— Jean Baudrillard
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No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can…
— Martha Beck
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It seems that nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also bestowed on…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Which of course is followed by: For those who have Awareness, a hint is quite enough. For the multitudes of heedless mere…
— Marcel Proust
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The tendency in the media is to portray everyone in the film industry as sex-starved creatures. Please spare us.
— Madhuri Dixit
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The devil take these people and their language! They take a dozen monosyllabic words in their jaws, chew them, crunch them and…
— Heinrich Heine
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Lord, please restore to us the comfort of merit and demerit. Show us that there is at least something we can do.…
— Robert Farrar Capon
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our…
— Michel Foucault
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We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.
— Vance Havner
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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare…
— Marcel Proust
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We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can…
— Marcel Proust
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We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can…
— Marcel Proust
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