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As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that they actually live.
Guy Debord
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Guy Debord
Age: 62 †
Born: 1931
Born: December 28
Died: 1994
Died: November 30
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Guy Louis Marie Vincent Ernest Debord
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Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.
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Revolution is not 'showing' life to people, but making them live. A revolutionary organization must always remember that its objective is not getting its adherents to listen to convincing talks by expert leaders, but getting them to speak for themselves, in order to achieve, or at least strive toward, an equal degree of participation.
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The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.
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Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
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