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Raoul Vaneigem has 41 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be…
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The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.
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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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As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
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Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete.
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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…
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Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all…
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Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.
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Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification,…
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In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.
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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…
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Millions of people miss meditation because meditation has taken on a wrong connotation. It looks very serious, looks gloomy, has something of…
— Rajneesh
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To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection
— Raoul Vaneigem
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The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking…
— Laurie Colwin
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There is really a je ne sais quoi about turkey cooking - the air of festivity, the family squabbles, the constant basting…
— Laurie Colwin
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I celebrate myself, and I hope soon the day will come you will be celebrating yourself. And when thousands and thousands of…
— Rajneesh
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The workaholics have done immense harm to the world. And the greatest harm they have done is that they have deprived life…
— Rajneesh
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I hiked around town, the air sweet and dry, and was sort of overwhelmed by the perfection of it -- the old…
— Garrison Keillor
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Everything gives way before the recurring torment and festivity of passion.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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We convinced him quickly that the possibility of war was absolutely nil and continued our festivity. On the next day we were…
— Manfred von Richthofen
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Christmas is not just a time for festivity and merry making. It is more than that. It is a time for the…
— Unknown Author
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Chinese New Year is the longest and most important festivity in the Chinese calendar. 24by7greetings has come up with a great collection…
— Albertdavid
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