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" Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. "

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" The whole is the false. "

" The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass. "

" Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies. "

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

" But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain. "

" Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men. "

" Every work of art is an uncommitted crime. "

" All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire. "

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

" Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion. "

" Life has become the ideology of its own absence. "

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

" No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit. "

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

" In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes. "

" Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them. "

" If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods. "

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

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

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

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

" An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences. "

" The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice. "

" He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself. "

" The joke of our time is the suicide of intention. "