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.
MICHEL FOUCAULTIn civilizations without ships, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of corsairs.
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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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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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It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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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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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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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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Government is the right disposition of things.
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There is no glory in punishing.
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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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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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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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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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Visibility is a trap.
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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