“It is not enough to fail; others must succeed.”
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“Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.”
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“There are men who love their like and seek it; others love their opposite and follow after it.”
― Maxims and Reflections
― Maxims and Reflections
“If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.”
― Maxims and Reflections
― Maxims and Reflections
“There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses.”
― The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
― The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
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