This book attempts to reflect on forgetting and exclusion as necessary strategies to preserve community ties. Characters of theoretical, historical, political or social importance are taken as a pretext. Thus in these pages Ephialtes, Diogenes of Sinope, Seneca, Marguerite Porete, Baltasar Gracián, Étienne de la Boétie, Emmanuel Sieyes, Michel de Montaigne, Blaise Pascal, Juan Gil-Albert, Sören Kierkegaard, Lou Andreas Salomé, Albert Camus, Angelo Poliziano and María Zambrano jump on stage and take the floor to say what was silenced for a long time.