The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.

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Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

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The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

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A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

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For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

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No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.

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Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

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Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

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If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.

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Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

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