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We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.
Raoul Vaneigem
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Raoul Vaneigem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 21
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People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination. This means that people are not really tired of comfort, culture and leisure, but of the use to which they are.
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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume the hellish cycle is complete.
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Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it.
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As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
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Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.
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I do not dream of a gentle revolution. My passion runs to the violence of supersession, the ferocity of a life that renounces nothing.
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In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life.
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Work is the opposite of creativity.
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Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty rising standard of living, all modern conveniences, distractions of all kinds, culture for all, the comfort of your dreams.
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Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.
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Daydreaming subverts the world.
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People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.
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The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life.
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