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" In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew. "
Theodor Adorno
Age
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" Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people. "
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" All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire. "
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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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" Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology. "
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" Normality is death. "
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" True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves. "
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" Life has become the ideology of its own absence. "
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" The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. "
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" A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself. "
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" The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong. "
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" Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you. "
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" A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it. "
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" Intelligence is a moral category. "
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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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" Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men. "
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" He who integrates is lost. "
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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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In The End
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" For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live. "
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" Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means. "
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" But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain. "
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Who
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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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" Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations. "
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" Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think. "
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" Wrong life cannot be lived rightly. "
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" Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. "
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Art
" The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice. "
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Choice
Hit
" In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes. "
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" Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people. "
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