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There is no love that is not an echo.

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Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job, and by this resemblance conceal what is not yet directly devoted to pecuniary gain.
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Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
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Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.
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