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Quotes from Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason — Michel Foucault

1926–1984 France

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Death’s annihilation is no longer anything because it was already everything, because life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells. The head that will become a skull is already empty. Madness is the déja-vu of death.

Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (1961)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Michel Foucault (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.