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" He who matures early lives in anticipation. "

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Self-Discipline

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

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

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

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

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

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

" Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology. "

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

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

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

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

" Every work of art is an uncommitted crime. "

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

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

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

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

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

" The whole is the false. "