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

Michel Foucault

We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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Power Sex Thinking
There is no glory in punishing.
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Glory One Liner Punishment
Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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Dangerous Innocent
The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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Deep End Game
Visibility is a trap.
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One Liner Trap View
You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don’t imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he.
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God Imagination Kill Live Man Philosophy Yourself
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
The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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Body Instrument Soul Spiritual
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Feeling Myself Philosophy
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
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
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
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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Light Mad Punishment Reality Truth Virtue
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
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

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