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“I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am, also, much more than that. So are we all.”
― Notes of a Native Son
― Notes of a Native Son
“How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
“The nostalgic is never a native but a displaced person who mediates between the local and the universal.”
― The Future of Nostalgia
― The Future of Nostalgia
“I would prefer not to.”
― Bartleby the Scrivener
― Bartleby the Scrivener
“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.”
― The Burnout Society
― The Burnout Society
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