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All the world's not a stage.

Theodor Adorno

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In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.
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Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.
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It is Proust's courtesy to spare the reader the embarrassment of believing himself cleverer than the author.
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Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.
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Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.
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