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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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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to…
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Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The…
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Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative…
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The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.
— Frank Norris
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Will we act upon life, or will we merely be acted upon?
— Stephen Covey
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I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.
— Rosa Parks
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When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood.
— Swami Vivekananda
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The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into…
— Raoul Vaneigem
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Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career…
— Orison Swett Marden
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She had turned her back upon them all and no awful fate had overtaken her; instead, she had taken a firm hold…
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