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All the world's not a stage.

Theodor Adorno

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What the philosophers once knew as life has become the sphere of private existence and now of mere consumption, dragged along as an appendage of the process of material production, without autonomy or substance of its own.
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On their way toward modern science human beings have discarded meaning. The concept is replaced by the formula, the cause by rules and probability.
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In the end, the writer is not even allowed to live in his writing.
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The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points.
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Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
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The bourgeois ... is tolerant. His love for people as they are stems from his hatred of what they might be.
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The jargon of authenticity ... is a trademark of societalized chosenness, ... sub-language as superior language.
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Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.
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The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.
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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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It is one of the basic tenets of fascist leadership to keep primary libidinal energy on an unconscious level so as to divert its manifestations in a way suitable to political ends.
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Whoever is versed in the jargon does not have to say what he thinks, does not even have to think it properly. The jargon takes over this task.
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The basest person is capable of perceiving the weaknesses of the greatest, the most stupid, the errors in the thought of the most intelligent.
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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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In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
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Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
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The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through them.
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In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
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Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.
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The inadequacy of the purely purpose-oriented form is revealed for what it is-a monotonous, impoverished boring practicality.
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