Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?
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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. . .
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To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.
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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.
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There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.
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