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Byung-Chul Han
“The society of authenticity is a performance society. All members perform themselves. All produce themselves. Everyone pays homage to the cult of the self, the worship of self in which everyone is his or her own priest.”
Byung-Chul Han, The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present

Arthur Schopenhauer
“A man may be as humble as possible in his demeanor, and yet hardly ever get people to overlook his crime in standing intellectually above them. In the Garden of Roses, Sadi makes the remark: 'You should know that foolish people are a hundredfold more averse to meeting the wise than the wise are indisposed for the company of the foolish.”
Arthur Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims

Thomas Mann
“You err first of all in the assumption that the intellectual cannot assume a personal character. You should not think that. The point at which you go wrong is in your estimation of the things of the mind, in general. You obviously think they are too feeble to engender conflicts and passions comparable for sternness with those real life brings forth, the only issue of which can be the appeal to force. All’ incontro! The abstract, the refined-upon, the ideal, is at the same time the Absolute—it is sternness itself; it contains within it more possibilities of deep and radical hatred, of unconditional and irreconcilable hostility, than any relation of social life can.”
Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

Ludwig Feuerbach
“Only he who has the courage to be absolutely negative has also the power to create something new”
Ludwig Feuerbach, The Fiery Brook: Selected Writings

“My mother put her hand to her mouth, remembering the treacherous, loose teeth. Her dentures needed relining. She kept putting it off, saving every extra cent to send one of the talented little kids into the city each week to study the trumpet... Years ago, she had cried and spit blood into the slop bucket because they couldn't afford to have her teeth fixed, only pulled all at once and false ones put in place. For weeks she seemed to be all teeth, two rows of gleaming porcelain in her bruised face. She wouldn't go anywhere. She stared at her reflection in the mirror and moaned. But now, a hand was sufficient to cover the embarrassment of teeth dropping down unexpectedly, revealing a pink moist space for all to see. My father played bingo at the Legion and had won an ironing board, a clock and last week, the jackpot. It was rolled up inside a tumbler in the cupboard, money to reline my mother's teeth.”
Sandra Birdsell, Ladies of the House

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