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“The acceleration of contemporary life also plays a role in this lack of being. The society of laboring and achievement is not a free society. It generates new constraints. Ultimately, the dialectic of master and slave does not yield a society where everyone is free and capable of leisure, too. Rather, it leads to a society of work in which the master himself has become a laboring slave. In this society of compulsion, everyone carries a work camp inside. This labor camp is defined by the fact that one is simultaneously prisoner and guard, victim and perpetrator. One exploits oneself. It means that exploitation is possible even without domination.”
― Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society

“Do you know how much thinking and feeling I’ve done? It’s terrible. And nothing’s come of it.”
― Andrei Platonov

“The culture of capitalism is self-contradictory, demanding that people be hard workers by day and hedonists by night.”
― Eva Illouz, Consuming the Romantic Utopia: Love and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

“Perhaps all pleasure in only relief”
― William S. Burroughs, Junky