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Michel Foucault Quotes: Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.
         

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.


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