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“Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.”
― Thomas Bernhard, Correction

“Dissonance is the truth about harmony.”
― Theodor W. Adorno

“Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.”
― Theodor W. Adorno

“Art is dead, but the student is necrophiliac.”
― Internationale situationniste, On the Poverty of Student Life: Considered in Its Economic, Political, Psychological, Sexual, and Particularly Intellectual Aspects, and a Modest Proposal for Its Remedy

“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. ”
― Pericles

“Waking up is the strongest argument for full-blown misanthropy.”
― M.J. Nicholls

“I can't listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid nice things and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.”
― Vladimir Lenin

“The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events. He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics. The imbecile doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies.”
― Bertolt Brecht

“What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?”
― Bertolt Brecht

“The point of history is not what can be uprooted or shaken, but rather the openness to the shaking.”
― Jan Patočka, Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History

“A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread. To pronounce it is to summon to oneself the presence of everything the word excludes.”
― Maurice Blanchot

“Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?”
― Diogenes of Sinope

“You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.”
― Samuel Beckett

“So it’s not a problem of getting people to express themselves but of providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t stop people expressing themselves but rather force them to express themselves; What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, and ever rarer, thing that might be worth saying.”
― Gilles Deleuze, Negotiations 1972-1990

“There's only two types of people in the world: the ones that entertain, and the ones that observe.”
― Britney Spears

“Whenever its name has been anything but a jest, philosophy has been haunted by a subterranean question: What if knowledge were a means to deepen unknowing?”
― Nick Land, Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings, 1987–2007

“It is a mere consolation to the timid to imagine that philosophy has died. The fact of the matter is quite to the contrary. Philosophy will be the last of human things; perhaps the efficient impulse of the end.”
― Nick Land

“Sometimes - history needs a push.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

“I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations.”
― Daniil Kharms

“You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.”
― Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

“Life has become the ideology of its own absence.”
― Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

“Pessimism is the night-side of thought, a melodrama of the futility of the brain, a lyricism written in the graveyard of philosophy.”
― Eugene Thacker, Infinite Resignation

“One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly.”
― Theodor W. Adorno

“It is already hard enough to understand what someone is saying. Discussion is just an exercise in narcissism where everyone takes turns showing off. Very quickly, you no longer have any idea what is being discussed.”
― Gilles Deleuze, Two Regimes of Madness: Texts And Interviews 1975 1995

“Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.”
― Martin Heidegger

“In history as in nature, decay is the laboratory of life.”
― Karl Marx

“Better to take the risk and engage in fidelity to a Truth-Event, even if it ends in catastrophe, than to vegetate in the eventless utilitarian-hedonist survival of what Nietzsche called the 'last men'.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Living in the End Times

“Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting”
― Clarice Lispector, A Hora da Estrela

“We no longer know what socialism is, or how to get there, and yet it remains the goal.”
― Deng Xiaoping

“To wake on a spring day they say, as if that has any meaning at all. I’ll tell you what spring is, it’s an abject temporal monstrosity, burgeoning at the seams with arrogant ethereality and patronizing glory; give me late autumn, give me the nights of winter, but oh dear lord, allow me the mercy of spring, with its false hope and aesthetic rebirth.”
― James Ellis / Meta-Nomad