Michel Foucault Quotes

People can tolerate two homosexuals they see leaving together, but the next day they're smiling, holding hands, tenderly embracing one another, then they cannot be forgiven. It is not the departure for pleasure that is unacceptable, it is waking up happy.

Michel Foucault

• Pleasure
• Tolerate
• Forgiven
• Homosexuals

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  Michel Foucault
  • Pleasure
  • Tolerate
  • Forgiven