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Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.
Theodor Adorno
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Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.
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The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.
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Vague expression permits the hearer to imagine whatever suits him and what he already thinks in any case.
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In the end, the writer is not even allowed to live in his writing.
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What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.
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Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to say that writing poetry after Auschwitz is impossible.
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