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Once leprosy had gone, and the figure of the leper was no more than a distant memory, these structures still remained. The game of exclusion…

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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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Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support. — Ambrose Bierce
There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a… — Mark Twain
The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the… — Verlyn Klinkenborg
What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art… — John Berger
Let me but find it in my heart to say, When vagrant wishes beckon me astray, "This is my work; my blessing,… — Henry Van Dyke
I had to de-program myself. From myself. Had to reinvent rituals of purification. So full of the vagrant pollutions of others. It… — Lydia Lunch
As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation. — John Smith
I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the… — John Masefield
The reality of truth is not to be bought, to be sold, to be repeated; it cannot be caught in books. It… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
People complain that the religious ground is unsure who have never compelled themselves to examine it with a tithe of the care… — Peter Forsyth
I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the… — Everett Ruess
A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander. Yet… — Isabelle Eberhardt

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