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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In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.

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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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Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.

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The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

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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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In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.

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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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Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.

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Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.

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