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All the world's not a stage.

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Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.
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All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
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The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness
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The whole is the false.
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In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
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Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.
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Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.
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Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
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The empirical usability of the sacred ceremonial words makes both the speaker and listener believe in their corporeal presence.
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Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.
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The idea that after this war life will continue 'normally' or even that culture might be 'rebuilt' - as if the rebuilding of culture were not already its negation - is idiotic.
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Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.
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If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.
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The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.
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