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    Michel Foucault
    “I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.”
    ― Michel Foucault
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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
    “What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not to individuals, or to life. That art is something which is specialized or which is done by experts who are artists. But couldn't everyone's life become a work of art? Why should the lamp or the house be an art object, but not our life?”
    ― Michel Foucault
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    Michel Foucault
    “I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.”
    ― Michel Foucault
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    Michel Foucault
    “Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting.”
    ― Michel Foucault, The Foucault Reader
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    Michel Foucault
    “I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.”
    ― Michel Foucault
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    Michel Foucault
    “A critique does not consist in saying that things aren't good the way they are. It consists in seeing on just what type of assumptions, of familiar notions, of established and unexamined ways of thinking the accepted practices are based... To do criticism is to make harder those acts which are now too easy.”
    ― Michel Foucault
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: ataraxy, independence, individuality, inspirational, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
    tags: confidence, inspirational, pride
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: expression, humor, irony, quoting, truth
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.”
    ― Montaigne, Les Essais
    tags: books
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: fear, paradox, suffer, suffering
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: individuality, reflection
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: curiosity, greed, insight, understanding
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: learning, lifelong-learning, philosophy, socrates
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.”
    ― Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: gods, humor, madness, superstition
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
    tags: friendship, love, marriage
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “I am a part of all that I have met.”
    ― Alfred Tennyson, The Complete Poetical Works of Tennyson
    tags: attitude, inspirational
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “Tis better to have loved and lost
    Than never to have loved at all.”
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam
    tags: paraphrase-of-congreve
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    Kathy Acker
    “GET RID OF MEANING. YOUR MIND IS A NIGHTMARE THAT HAS BEEN EATING YOU: NOW EAT YOUR MIND.”
    ― Kathy Acker
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    Kathy Acker
    “For the poet, the world is word. Words. Not that precisely. Precisely: the world and words fuck each other.”
    ― Kathy Acker
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    Kathy Acker
    “i am a limitless series of natural disasters and all of these disasters have been unnaturally repressed.”
    ― Kathy Acker, Pussy, King of the Pirates
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    Ronald Sukenick
    “Understanding requires a release from understanding.”
    ― Ronald Sukenick
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    Ronald Sukenick
    “I want to write a book like a cloud that changes as it goes.”
    ― Ronald Sukenick, Out
    tags: as, book, changes, cloud, goes, i, it, like, that, to, want, write
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    Ronald Sukenick
    “Use your imagination," I tell my students these days, "or someone else is going to use it for you.”
    ― Ronald Sukenick, Down and in: Life in the Underground
    tags: imagination
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    Marcel Proust
    “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
    ― Marcel Proust
    tags: gratitude, happiness
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    Marcel Proust
    “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
    ― Marcel Proust
    tags: discovery, travel
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