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

" Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people. "

" Every work of art is an uncommitted crime. "

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

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

" To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults. "

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

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

" Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic. "

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

" He who matures early lives in anticipation. "

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

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

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" Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. "

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

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

" True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves. "

" Intelligence is a moral category. "

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

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

" The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them. "

" Horror is beyond the reach of psychology. "

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

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

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

" Wrong life cannot be lived rightly. "

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

" Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you. "

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