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“When everything is bad it must be good to know the worst”

“All art aims to end art”

“Ready-made enlightenment turns not only spontaneous reflection but also analytical insights—whose power equals the energy and suffering that it cost to gain them—into mass-produced articles,and the painful secrets of individual history… into commonplace conventions” (p. 69-70)

Excerpt from #38 I loved: “It is part pr the mechanism of domination to forbid recognition of the suffering it produces, and there is a straight line of development between the gospel of happiness and the construction of camps of extermination so far off in Poland that each of our countrymen can convince himself that he cannot hear the screams of pain”