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To live one's love and hatred, to live that which one is means defeat, resignation, and death. The crimes of society, the hell that man has made or man become unconquerable cosmic forces.

Herbert Marcuse

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Herbert Marcuse
Age: 81 †
Born: 1898
Born: July 19
Died: 1979
Died: July 29
Philosopher
Political Theorist
Sociologist
University Teacher
Berlin
Germany
Become
Defeat
Live
Hatred
Mean
Crime
Made
Hell
Unconquerable
Men
Society
Resignation
Love
Force
Crimes
Means
Cosmic
Death
Forces

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