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" In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations. "
Theodor Adorno
True
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" He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself. "
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" Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. "
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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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" Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed. "
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" He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest. "
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" In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so. "
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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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