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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 they cannot be…

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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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Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a… — Ansel Adams
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. — John Adams
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly. — Amos Bronson Alcott
Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in… — Tryon Edwards
In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees… — Alexander Smith
I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly". — Vincent Van Gogh
If by chance I seated myself to write, she very slyly, very tenderly, seeking protection and caresses, would softly take her place… — Pierre Loti
None but mothers know each other's feelings when we give up our daughters whom we love and cherish so tenderly to the… — Emmeline B. Wells
Hold tenderly that which you cherish, for it is precious and a tight grip may crush it. Do not let the fear… — Unknown Author
Open your hearts to the love God instills . . . God loves you tenderly. What He gives you is not to… — Mother Teresa
What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she… — William Makepeace Thackeray
We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe we loved… — Queen Victoria

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