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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.

Michel Foucault

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
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
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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Deep People Philosophy
Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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Dangerous Innocent
Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
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Existence Justice Philosophy
Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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Knowledge 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
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
Where there is power, there is resistance.
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One Liner Power Resistance
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Feeling Myself Philosophy
What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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Deep Desire Man Nature
From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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Comfortable Difference Need Pleasant Wealth
Visibility is a trap.
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One Liner Trap View
My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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Bad Dangerous Myself
I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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Myself Philosophy Religious
Government is the right disposition of things.
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Government One Liner Right

I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.

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