"People know what they do.…" — Michel Foucault

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Les gens savent ce qu'ils font. Souvent, ils savent pourquoi ils font ce qu'ils font. Mais ce qu'ils ne savent pas, c'est ce que ce qu'ils font fait.

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“The totality of my discourse, a discourse which is in the end truly my own, concerns my own illness”

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