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The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.

Michel Foucault

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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Discover Hide Himself Investment Man Secret Truth
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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Growth Myself Philosophy
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Life Philosophy Word
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
Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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Knowledge Philosophy
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
What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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Deep Desire Man Nature
Visibility is a trap.
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One Liner Trap View
The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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Deep End Game
The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Language Mad Reason
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
Government is the right disposition of things.
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Government One Liner Right
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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Justice Law Philosophy
I’m not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.
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Absence Myself Problem
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
We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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Age Philosophy

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