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#1

“On every new thing there lies already the shadow of annihilation.”
― W.G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn

#2

“The sword of justice need flash but once in the darkness. The light that shone from its blade would tell the world that the dawn was not far off. But men knew that a single glint from a Japanese sword was like the pale blue of daybreak along a mountain ridge.”
― Yukio Mishima

tags: runaway-horses

1 likes

#3

“To set one's name to a work gives no one a title to be remembered, for who knows how many of the best of men have gone without a trace?”
― W.G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn

tags: authorship, oblivion, posterity

8 likes

#4

“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”
― Karl Marx

tags: duopoly, oppression, politics, representation, repression, society

1509 likes

#5

“An alcoholic is someone you don't like, who drinks as much as you do.”
― Dylan Thomas

tags: alcoholic, definitions, humor, substance-abuse

249 likes

#6

“Time destroys everything we do, whatever it is.”
― Thomas Bernhard, Concrete

15 likes

#7

“I don't belong to the masses, I've been against the masses all my life, and I'm not in favour of dogs.”
― Thomas Bernhard, Concrete

tags: dogs, mass-culture, nonconformity

14 likes

#8

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

1207 likes

#9

“Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.”
― Karl Marx

tags: alienation, exploitation, work

55 likes

#10

“Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand.”
― Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

tags: history-politics

19 likes

#11

“He did not know how hawks mated but he knew that all things fought.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Child of God

25 likes

#12

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

tags: funny, humor, inspirational

641 likes

#13

“It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.”
― Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

tags: anti-capitalism, apocalypse, capitalism, capitalist-realism, fiction, imagination, pop-culture, realism

136 likes

#14

“The pandemic of mental anguish that afflicts our time cannot be properly understood, or healed, if viewed as a private problem suffered by damaged individuals.”
― Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

56 likes

#15

“They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

tags: journey, travel

106 likes

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