“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
“Every act of communication is a miracle of translation.”
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
“power is tolerable only on condition that it masks a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to an ability to hide its own mechanisms.”
― The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
― The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
“And if all I know how to do is speak, it is for you that I shall speak. My lips shall speak for miseries that have no mouth, my voice shall be the liberty of those who languish in the dungeon of despair… And above all my body as well as my soul, beware of folding your arms in the sterile attitude of spectator, for life is not a spectacle, for a sea of pain is not a proscenium.”
― Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
― Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
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