Did Michel Foucault really say 'I write to understand, not to be understood.'?

Michel Foucault:

I write to understand, not to be understood.

— Michel Foucault Contemporary

Power structures, postmodernism

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"The discourse on sexuality has always been a discourse of power."

"Power is not something that is acquired, seized, or shared, but something that is exercised."

"The greatest danger for me is to be bored."

"The soul is the prison of the body."

"The gaze is a political act."

Often attributed, a statement on his writing process.

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