75 Quotes by Raoul Vaneigem


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    In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted, until that death which is not the.

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    To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection.

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    Everywhere the same law holds good: ‘There is no weapon of your individual will which, once appropriated by others, does not turn against you.’ If.

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    There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man’s life than in all the philosophies.

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    If I must die, at least let me die as I have occasionally loved.

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    Those who organize the world organize both suffering and the pain-killers for dealing with it;.

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    My pleasure is nameless: those all too rare moments when I create myself afford no purchase to external manipulation.

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    The harder you run after time, the faster time goes: this is the law of the consumable. Try to stop it, and it will wear you out and age you all the more easily. Time must be caught on the wing, in the present – but the present has yet to be constructed.

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