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The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves.
Theodor Adorno
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There is no true life within a false life.
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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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They [the critics] deal with Schoenberg's early works and all their wealth by classifying them, with the music-historical cliché, as late romantic post-Wagnerian. One might just as well dispose of Beethoven as a late-classicist post-Haydnerian.
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The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.
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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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Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.
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Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
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The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.
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For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
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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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What has become alien to men is the human component of culture, its closest part, which upholds them against the world. They make common cause with the world against themselves, and the most alienated condition of all, the omnipresence of commodities, their own conversion into appendages of machinery, is for them a mirage of closeness.
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The creed of evil has been, since the beginnings of highly industrialized society, not only a precursor of barbarism but a mask of good. The worth of the latter was transferred to the evil that drew to itself all the hatred and resentment of an order which drummed good into its adherents so that it could with impunity be evil.
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Love is the ability to discover similarities in the dis-similar. The audience has a right not to be fooled - even if it insists on being fooled.
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