People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination.
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In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted. . .Raoul Vaneigem
The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.
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Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.
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To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.
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We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.
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