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“The crows assert that a single crow could destroy the heavens. This is certainly true, but it proves nothing against the heavens, because heaven means precisely: the impossibility of crows.”
― The Zürau Aphorisms
― The Zürau Aphorisms
“The avant-garde is now an arrière-garde.”
― Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past
― Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past
“Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen.”
― Notes on the Cinematographer
― Notes on the Cinematographer
“Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom.”
― Literature Is Freedom
― Literature Is Freedom
“Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these private certitudes that our vanity and our complacency bestow generously on us, have many deceptive sojourns as the world arranges for those who think they are standing straight and at ease, among stable things”
― Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
― Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
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