Mere Survival Quotes by Raoul Vaneigem

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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…
• The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.
• People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination.…
• As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
• Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
• Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete.
• In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a…
• Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all…
• Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.
• Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification,…
• In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.
• 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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