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• There is no right life in the wrong one.

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  "The Little Red Book for Children" by Jacob Blumenfeld, www.nytimes.com. May 28, 2017.

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• The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.

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  Sublime, Steps, Ridiculous

  Theodor W. Adorno (2013). “Aesthetic Theory”, p.269, A&C Black

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• The jargon of authenticity ... is a trademark of societalized chosenness, ... sub-language as superior language.

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  Jargon, Language, Authenticity

  "The Jargon of Authenticity". Book by Theodor W. Adorno, 1964.

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• Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

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  Differences, Discrimination, Conscious

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.37, Verso

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• Thought as such… is an act of negation, of resistance to that which is forced upon it; this is what thought has inherited from its archetype, the relation between labor and material. Today, when ideologues tend more than ever to encourage thought to be positive, they cleverly note that positivity runs precisely counter to thought, and that it takes friendly persuasion by social authority to accustom thought to positivity.

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  Running, Positivity, Being Positive

  Theodor Adorno (2003). “Negative Dialectics”, p.19, Routledge

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• Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to say that writing poetry after Auschwitz is impossible.

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  Art, Writing, Suffering

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• Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth.

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  Doe, Violence, Enough

  Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno (2002). “Dialectic of Enlightenment”, p.2, Stanford University Press

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• As a constellation, theoretical thought circles the concept it would like to unseal, hoping that it may fly open like the lock of a well-guarded safe-deposit box: in response, not to a single key or a single number, but to a combination of numbers

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  Numbers, Keys, Circles

  Theodor Adorno (2003). “Negative Dialectics”, p.163, Routledge

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• Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness.

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  Laughing, Mockery, Industry

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• One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly.

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  Hate, Tradition, Oneself

  Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.81, Univ of California Press

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• In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

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  Birthday, Being Yourself, Inspire

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• What has become alien to men is the human component of culture, its closest part, which upholds them against the world. They make common cause with the world against themselves, and the most alienated condition of all, the omnipresence of commodities, their own conversion into appendages of machinery, is for them a mirage of closeness.

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  Men, Mirages, World

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• The error in positivism is that it takes as its standard of truth the contingently given division of labor, that between the science and social praxis as well as that within science itself, and allows no theory that could reveal the division of labor to be itself derivative and mediated and thus strip it of its false authority.

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  Division Of Labor, Errors, Derivatives

  Theodor W. Adorno (2012). “Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords”, p.10, Columbia University Press

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• No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.

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  Men, Spirit, Harm

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.138, Verso

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• The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points.

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  Distance, Two, People

  "Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life". Book by Theodor W. Adorno, 1951.

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• Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.

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  Memories, Past, Leftovers

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• Newness only becomes mere evil in its totalitarian format, where all the tension between individual and society, that once gave rise to the category of the new, is dissipated. Today the appeal to newness, of no matter what kind, provided only that it is archaic enough, has become universal, the omnipresent medium of false mimesis. The decomposition of the subject is consummated in his self-abandonment to an ever-changing sameness.

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  Self, Evil, Matter

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.238, Verso

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• Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.

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  Jew, Rumours, Anti Semitism

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.110, Verso

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• It is Proust's courtesy to spare the reader the embarrassment of believing himself cleverer than the author.

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  Believe, Proust, Courtesy

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.49, Verso

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• The inadequacy of the purely purpose-oriented form is revealed for what it is-a monotonous, impoverished boring practicality.

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  Purpose, Boring, Form

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• The new human type cannot be properly understood without awareness of what he is continuously exposed to from the world of things about him, even in his most secret innervations.

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  Secret, Culture, World

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.40, Verso

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• Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.

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  Health, Sickness, Health Care

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.77, Verso

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• The idea that after this war life will continue 'normally' or even that culture might be 'rebuilt' - as if the rebuilding of culture were not already its negation - is idiotic.

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  War, Ideas, Culture

  Theodor W. Adorno, Rolf Tiedemann (2003). “Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader”, p.46, Stanford University Press

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• Kitsch parodies catharsis...It is in vain to try to draw the boundaries abstractly between aesthetic fiction and kitsch's emotional plunder. It is a poison admixed to all art; excising it is today one of art's despairing efforts.

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  Art, Emotional, Effort

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• In myths the warrant of grace was the acceptance of sacrifice; it is this acceptance that love, the re-enactment of sacrifice, beseeches if it is not to feel under a curse.

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  Love, Acceptance, Sacrifice

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.217, Verso

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