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.
MICHEL FOUCAULTFrom the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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Visibility is a trap.
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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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It would be wrong to say that the soul is an illusion or an ideological effect. On the contrary, it exists, it has a reality.
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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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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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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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There is no glory in punishing.
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Madness is the false punishment of a false solution, but by its own virtue, it brings to light the real problem, which can then be truly resolved.
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The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratize popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
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People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do, but what they don’t know is what they do does.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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