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“Sergilenme, teşhir edilme mecburiyeti bizzat bedenin yabancılaşmasına yol açar. Beden, optimize edilmesi gereken bir sergi nesnesi şeklinde şeyleşir. Bu bedenin içinde ikamet etmek mümkün değildir. Onu sergilemek, böylece de sömürmek gerekir.”
― Byung-Chul Han, Transparenzgesellschaft

“I’d always cared extremely little for public opinion because I was always obsessed with my own opinion and hence had no time at all for the public’s.”
― Thomas Bernhard, Concrete

“The only way to go beyond work is through work. It is not that work itself is valuable; we surmount work by work. The real value of work lies in the strength of self-denial.”
― Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

“I must have made a pitiful, indeed pitiable impression on an observer, though there was none – unless I'm going to say that I am an observer of myself, which is stupid, since I am my own observer anyway: I've actually been observing myself for years, if not for decades; my life now consists only of self-observation and self-contemplation, which naturally leads to self-condemnation, self-rejection and self-mockery. For years I have lived in this state of self-condemnation, self-abnegation and self mockery, in which ultimately I always have to take refuge in order to save myself. But all the time I ask myself what I have to save myself from?”
― Thomas Bernhard, Concrete