Being apart was wrong. Simply lying side by side did more for a relationship than words. A warm bed, a nest of animal intimacy. Words could be misunderstood, whereas loving companionship bred trust.


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I am for the muscles. I would like to have a lot of muscles, because women like it. I'm for body...
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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed wi...
MICHEL FOUCAULT
Where there is power, there is resistance.
MICHEL FOUCAULT
The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyse...
MICHEL FOUCAULT
Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the perso...
MICHEL LEIRIS
The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad,...
MICHEL FOUCAULT
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
MICHEL FOUCAULT
There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger,...
MICHEL FOUCAULT
As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps n...
MICHEL FOUCAULT
The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doct...
MICHEL FOUCAULT
The man described for us, whom we are invited to free, is already in himself the effect of a subject...
MICHEL FOUCAULT
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of socie...
MICHEL FOUCAULT
Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, w...
MICHEL FOUCAULT
Nothing seems more like a whorehouse to me than a museum. In it you find the same equivocal aspect, ...
MICHEL LEIRIS
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
MICHEL FOUCAULT
Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign ente...
MICHEL FOUCAULT
Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the e...
MICHEL FOUCAULT
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
MICHEL FOUCAULT
Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We gener...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ
Prison is a recruitment center for the army of crime. That is what it achieves.
MICHEL FOUCAULT
Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting d...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ
There are forms of oppression and domination which become invisible - the new normal.
MICHEL FOUCAULT
The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavi...
MICHEL FOUCAULT
When you speak of silent movies, everyone thinks of Charlie Chaplin first.
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS
Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who w...
MICHEL GONDRY
It's a party that's being organized; it's not a protest. The carnival is not like it was...
MICHEL MARTELLY
Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clerg...
MICHEL ONFRAY
We do not possess an official certificate of birth for worship of one God. But the family line is cl...
MICHEL ONFRAY
It's about time that Amtrak entered the 21st century. Revenue maximization works, and as Amtrak sees...
ALLEN MICHEL
Whoever ends up getting Guidant at this point will probably end up paying too much.
ALLEN MICHEL
I would try to settle all the outstanding liability claims at this point in time, so that it doesn't...
ALLEN MICHEL
They've integrated a lot of the companies they've bought quite well. But when you're comparing them ...
ALLEN MICHEL
When you're putting off the benefits of a deal for that long, you're dramatically increasing the ris...
ALLEN MICHEL
They have to try to minimize each one of these risks until they finally enter the actual battle of r...
ALLEN MICHEL
Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too o...
MICHEL ONFRAY
I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitut...
MICHEL ONFRAY
The frontiers of a book are never clear-cut: beyond the title, the first lines, and the last full st...
MICHEL FOUCAULT
By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife enge...
MICHEL ONFRAY
Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of powe...
MICHEL FOUCAULT
We arrived in Argentina with a lot of injured players, including our goalkeeper. Also we were unluck...
MICHEL PATINI
At age eleven, I became a member of the circulating library of my home town. From there on I was rar...
HARTMUT MICHEL
The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ
Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer.
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS
We can no more tolerate neutrality and benevolence toward every conceivable form of discourse, inclu...
MICHEL ONFRAY
My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances ...
MICHEL GONDRY