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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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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of…
— Theodor Adorno
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What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words, renunciation is…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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To be unattached is not to renounce the world. If you renounce the world you are attached to the world; otherwise why…
— Rajneesh
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The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Unless Hamas recognizes Israel's right to exist and renounces terror, the Palestinian Authority should receive no direct U.S. assistance.
— Lois Capps
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A man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something.
— Michelangelo Antonioni
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Men have died in torture chambers, on the stake, in concentration camps, in front of firing squads, rather than renounce their convictions.…
— Ayn Rand
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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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What is marriage but the renunciation of unchastity? The savage does not marry. Man marries because he renounces.
— Swami Vivekananda
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The Buhha was a monastic, but the practice of mindfulness in the context of any lifestyle is one of renunciation. Every moment…
— Sylvia Boorstein
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There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority…
— Sigmund Freud
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