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if she were its leader. Not that she ever would be: she was born to be a dissenter within a larger certainty, she knows that.


Michel Faber

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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