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What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.

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Calling sex by its name thereafter [the 17th c.] became more difficult and more costly. As if in order to gain mastery of it in reality, it had first ...more

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In a sense, I am a moralist, insofar as I believe that one of the tasks, one of the meanings of human existence—the source of human freedom—is never t...more

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The work of an intellectual is not to form the political will of others; it is, through the analyses he does in his own domains, to bring assumptions ...more

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Curiosity evokes ‘concern’; it evokes the care one takes for what exists and could exist; a readiness to find strange and singular what surrounds us; ...more

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[T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is p...more

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People will be surprised at the eagerness with which we went aboutpretending to rouse from its slumber a sexuality which every­thing-our discourses, o...more

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To all those who still wish to talk about man, about his reign or his liberation, to all those who still ask themselves questions about what man is in...more