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Tenderness between people is nothing other than awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose.
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Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.
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The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.
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The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves.
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The new human type cannot be properly understood without awareness of what he is continuously exposed to from the world of things about him, even in his most secret innervations.
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Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
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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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The whole is the false.
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The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished rediscovers himself.
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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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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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Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
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Dissonance is the truth about harmony.
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The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.
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Philosophy ... must not bargain away anything of the emphatic concept of truth.
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Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
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A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.
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Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.
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