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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.

Michel Foucault

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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Existence Illusion Philosophy Reality Soul Spiritual Wrong
The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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Deep End Game
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
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
What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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Deep Desire Man Nature
I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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Myself Philosophy Religious
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
The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Discover Freedom Liberty
Visibility is a trap.
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One Liner Trap View
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
The individual is the product of power.
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Individual One Liner Power
Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
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Deep Fight Philosophy Sad Thinking
My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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Bad Dangerous Myself
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
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

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