"Ideally a book would have no order in……" — Raoul Vaneigem

"Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own."

— Raoul Vaneigem

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40 Quotes by Raoul Vaneigem

Raoul Vaneigem has 40 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can…
The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize…
People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that…
As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way…
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,…
Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of…
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 the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom…
We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to…

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Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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