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The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
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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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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
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The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
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Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.
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Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.
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No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.
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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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Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
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He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.
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Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.
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