Speech Begins after Death Quotes

“I’m well aware that I shouldn’t be telling you these things; rather, I want to tell you these things, but I’m not certain they’re worth publishing. I’m a bit terrified at the idea that one day they’ll be discovered.”
― Michel Foucault, Speech Begins after Death

“Ultimately, we always write not only to write the last book we will write, but, in some truly frenzied way—and this frenzy is present even in the most minimal gesture of writing—to write the last book in the world. In truth, what we write at the moment of writing, the final sentence of the work we’re completing, is also the final sentence of the world, in that, afterward, there’s nothing more to say. There’s a paroxysmal intent to exhaust language in the most insignificant sentence.”
― Michel Foucault, Speech Begins after Death