“Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.”

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to h…" by Michel Foucault?
Michel Foucault photo
Michel Foucault 128
French philosopher 1926–1984

Related quotes

Michel Foucault photo
Peter Sellers photo

“If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.”

Peter Sellers (1925–1980) British film actor, comedian and singer

As quoted in Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion (1988) by Leslie Halliwell, p. 622

Aurelius Augustinus photo

“What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.”
Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio.

XI, 14
Confessions (c. 397)

“Do you always ask me the same questions you ask him?"

"It depends on whether or not I get an answer.”

Anne Bishop (1955) American fiction writer

Source: Daughter of the Blood

F. Scott Fitzgerald photo

“Think how you love me," she whispered. "I don’t ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night.”

Variant: I don't ask you to love me always like this but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside of me there will always be the person I am tonight.
Source: Tender Is the Night

Agatha Christie photo

“My dignity asks him who does me no harm to do me no harm. Of him who harms me it asks nothing.”

Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet

Mi dignidad le pide a quien no me hace daño que no me haga daño, y a quien me hace daño no le pide nada.
Voces (1943)

Meg Cabot photo

“I get accused all the time of having a big
mouth. But if you ask me, guys gossip way more than girls do.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Queen of Babble in the Big City

Thomas Merton photo

Related topics