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    Michel Foucault
    “People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.”
    ― Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
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    Michel Foucault
    “...if you are not like everybody else, then you are abnormal, if you are abnormal , then you are sick. These three categories, not being like everybody else, not being normal and being sick are in fact very different but have been reduced to the same thing”
    ― Michel Foucault
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    Bill Watterson
    “It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
    ― Bill Watterson
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    Michel Foucault
    “The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library.”
    ― Michel Foucault
    tags: books, fantastic, fantasy, imagination, reading
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    Michel Foucault
    “But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty.”
    ― Michel Foucault
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    Michel Foucault
    “The intellectual was rejected and persecuted at the precise moment when the facts became incontrovertible, when it was forbidden to say that the emperor had no clothes. ”
    ― Michel Foucault
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    Michel Foucault
    “...it's my hypothesis that the individual is not a pre-given entity which is seized on by the exercise of power. The individual, with his identity and characteristics, is the product of a relation of power exercised over bodies, multiplicities, movements, desires, forces.”
    ― Michel Foucault
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    Michel Foucault
    “What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?”
    ― Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
    tags: desire, nature, norms
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    “Eventually soulmates meet, for they have the same hiding place.”
    ― Robert Brault
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    “Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.”
    ― Robert Brault
    tags: consideration, kind, kindness, truth, truth-telling, truthfulness
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  • #11
    “Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.”
    ― Robert Brault
    tags: apology, healing, healing-the-past, moving-on
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  • #12
    “In the end there doesn’t have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.”
    ― Robert Brault
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    “Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backward
    after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's a cha-cha.”
    ― Robert Brault
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    “What we find in a soul mate is not something wild to tame, but something wild to run with.”
    ― Robert Brault
    tags: love
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    “Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life and that person was you. It is not too late to become that person again.”
    ― Robert Brault
    tags: self-love
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    “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realise they were the big things.”
    ― Robert Brault
    tags: chill-out, life
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    “In a soulmate we find not company, but a completed solitude.”
    ― Robert Brault
    tags: company, solitude, soulmates
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    “Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.”
    ― Robert Brault
    tags: friendship
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    “To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.”
    ― Robert Brault
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    “Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am I to concern myself with an allotment of days I never had and was never promised? Must I check off each day of my life as if I am subtracting from this imaginary hoard? No, on the contrary, I will add each day of my life to my treasure of days lived. And with each day, my treasure will grow, not diminish.”
    ― Robert Brault
    tags: inspirational, life
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    “There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.”
    ― Robert Brault
    tags: beautiful, beautiful-writing, happiness, inspiration, inspirational-quotes, love, quotes, writing
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    “Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence.”
    ― Robert Brault
    tags: ego, esteem, guilt, judgment, self-esteem, self-judgement
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    “I Have Found that If You Love Life Life will Love You Back”
    ― Robert Brault, Round Up The Usual Subjects: Thoughts On Just About Everything
    tags: life-and-living
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    “Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional.”
    ― Robert Brault
    tags: impossiblity, nature, speed-of-light
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    “Sometimes we can't find the thing that will make us happy, because we can't let go of the thing that was supposed to.”
    ― Robert Brault
    tags: happiness, things
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    “A family is a group of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.”
    ― Robert Brault
    tags: family, funny
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  • #27
    “I have found that winning isn't everything, and, in fact, in the relationships I most care about, it isn't anything.”
    ― Robert Brault
    tags: conflict, love, winning
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  • #28
    “Better you don't search for who you are until you know who it is you want to find.”
    ― Robert Brault
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    “There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.”
    ― Robert Brault
    tags: gratitude, thankfulness
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  • #30
    “The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent. The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist.”
    ― Robert Brault
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