"Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline."
-Theodor Adorno
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"Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.“
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"Every work of art is an uncommitted crime."
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"A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it."
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"Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come."
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"Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth."
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"Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men."
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