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The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.

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Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

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Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

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He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.

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The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

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Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.

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Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.

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The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

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Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

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In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.

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Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

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The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

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The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.

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A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

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Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.

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Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.

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Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

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There is no love that is not an echo.

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The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

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Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.

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Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

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In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

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Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.

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The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.

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The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

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Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.

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Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

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The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.

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In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

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In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

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Intelligence is a moral category.

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Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

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Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.

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