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Quote by Michel Foucault
Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the c

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art. – Michel Foucault

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Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions. – Michel Foucault

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What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life. – Michel Foucault

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Art
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Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline. – Michel Foucault

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Madness
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O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper. I would not be mad. – William Shakespeare

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Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane. – Henry Miller

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Madness

The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground. – Herman Melville

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The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad. – Salvador Dali

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To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination. – Donald Sutherland

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread. – Author Unknown

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No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. – Harry Emerson Fosdick

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I begin to feel like most Americans dont understand the First Amendment, dont understand the idea of freedom of speech, and dont understand that its the responsibility of the citizen to speak out. – Roger Ebert

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