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Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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The power of a country road is different when one is walking along it from when one is flying over it by aeroplane.
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The expressions of those moving about a picture gallery show ill-concealed disappointment that they only find pictures there.
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All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.
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Humanity’s self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.
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What matters for the dialectician is having the wind of world history in his sails. Thinking for him means: to set the sails. It is the way they are set that matters. Words are his sails. The way they are set turns them into concepts.
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Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
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One of the foremost tasks of art has always been the creation of a demand which could be fully satisfied only later. The history of every art form shows critical epochs in which a certain art form aspires to effects which could be fully obtained only with a changed technical standard, that is to say, in a new art form. The extravagances and crudities of art which thus appear, particularly in the so-called decadent epochs, actually arise from the nucleus of its richest historical energies.
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