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.
MICHEL FOUCAULTWe must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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Visibility is a trap.
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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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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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There is no glory in punishing.
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Modern man is not the man who goes off to discover himself, his secrets, and his hidden truth; he is a man who tries to invest himself.
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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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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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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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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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