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Madness, in its wild, untamable words, proclaims its own meaning in its chimeras, it utters its secret truth.

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Michel Foucault
Age: 57 †
Born: 1926
Born: October 15
Died: 1984
Died: June 26
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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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Relations of power are indissociable from a discourse of truth, and they can neither be established nor function unless a true discourse is produced, accumulated, put into circulation, and set to work. Power cannot be exercised unless a certain economy of discourses of truth functions in, on the basis of, and thanks to, that power.
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it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime
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