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“The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save-the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour-your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life-the greater is the store of your estranged being.”
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“Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.”
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“Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.”
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“Philosophy is transcendental homelessness; it is the urge to be at home everywhere”
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Balter’s 2024 Year in Books
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