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The first task of the doctor is ... political: the struggle against disease must begin with a war against bad government." Man will be totally and definitively cured only if he is first liberated.


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Search for what is good and strong and beautiful in your society and elaborate from there. Push outward. Always create from what you already have. Then you will know what to do.

Search for what is good and strong and beautiful in your society and elaborate from there. Push outward. Always create from what you already have. Then you will know what to do.



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From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.



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Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?



I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.

I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.



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.

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.





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