Matthew
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I told them a story almost devoid of events or achievements.


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

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

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

“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.”
― Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
― Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

“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.”
― The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
― The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

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