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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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Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe, nor most certainly explain, what is essential in this enterprise. – Michel Foucault

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Power is not an institution, and not a structure neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society. – Michel Foucault

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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness. – Allen Ginsberg

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

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Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad? – Isadora Duncan

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