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" Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category. "

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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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" There is no love that is not an echo. "

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Self-Discipline

" Every work of art is an uncommitted crime. "

" The whole is the false. "

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

" The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own. "

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

" In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so. "

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

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

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

" The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong. "

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

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

" He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof. "

" Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means. "

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

" 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. "

" Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people. "

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

" Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination. "

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

" Horror is beyond the reach of psychology. "