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Michel Foucault: The Utopian Body (1966)

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The Mirror and the Corpse

To make love is to feel one's body close in on itself. Love also, like the mirror and like death, it appeases the utopia of your body. It hushes it, it calms it, it encloses it as if in a box, it shuts and seals it. And if, despite these two perilous figures that surround it, we love so much to make love, it is because in love, the body is here.

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