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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.

Michel Foucault

Islam, in the year 1978, was not the opium of the people precisely because it was the spirit of a world without spirit.
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People Religion Spirit World
Death as the destruction of all things no longer had meaning when life was revealed to be a fatuous sequence of empty words, the hollow jingle of a jester’s cap and bells.
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Death Destruction Empty Life Philosophy Word
This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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Knowledge Philosophy
We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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Age Philosophy
I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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Myself Philosophy Religious
There is no glory in punishing.
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Glory One Liner Punishment
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.
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Myself Person Writing
Visibility is a trap.
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One Liner Trap View
Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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Death Heaven Man Secret Tragedy Truth
I’m not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.
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Absence Myself Problem
Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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Education People Serve
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.
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Beginning Feeling Inspirational Life Myself Necessary Success
It’s amazing how people like judging.
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One Liner People
In civilizations without ships, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of corsairs.
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Adventure Deep Dream Place
The individual is the product of power.
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Individual One Liner Power
What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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Deep Desire Man Nature

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