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Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and insight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.

Michel Foucault

As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
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Easy End History Invention Man Ourselves Philosophy
I don’t write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.
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Book Myself Necessary Possible Word Writing
Visibility is a trap.
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One Liner Trap View
Where there is power, there is resistance.
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One Liner Power Resistance
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
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
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
With humanity, life has ended up with a living creature that never quite finds itself in the right place, a living creature destined to wander and endlessly make mistakes.
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End Humanity Life Live Mistake Place Quite Right
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Life Philosophy Word
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
My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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Bad Dangerous Myself
The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Language Mad Reason
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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Growth Myself Philosophy
It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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Crime Horror Punishment
What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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Deep Desire Man Nature
The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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Deep End Game

Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and insight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.

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