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Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
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Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
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Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.
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The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.
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The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.
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Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.
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A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.
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True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.
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The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.
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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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Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.
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History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
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