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• Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.

  Theodor Adorno

  Art, Relation, Inner Life

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• Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job, and by this resemblance conceal what is not yet directly devoted to pecuniary gain.

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  Life, Jobs, Looks

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• In Anglo-Saxon countries the prostitutes look as if they purveyed, along with sin, the attendant pains of hell.

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  Country, Pain, Looks

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.49, Verso

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• Indeed, happiness is nothing other than being encompassed, an after-image of the original shelter within the mother. But for this reason no one who is happy can know that he is so. To see happiness, he would have to pass out of it: to be as if already born. He who says he is happy lies, and in invoking happiness, sins against it. He alone keeps faith who says: I was happy.

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  Mother, Lying, Shelter

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.112, Verso

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• The lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.

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  Lying, Believe, Reality

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.30, Verso

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• The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.

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  Art, World, Rational

  Theodor W. Adorno (2013). “Aesthetic Theory”, p.27, A&C Black

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• Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

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  Language, Hunger, Poor

  Theodor W. Adorno (1978). “Minima Moralia”, p.102, Verso

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• Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.

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  Organization, Insane, Destruction

  Theodor W. Adorno, Rolf Tiedemann (2003). “Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader”, p.71, Stanford University Press

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• There is something embarrassing in... the way in which, ... turning suffering into images, harsh and uncompromising though they are, ... wounds the shame we feel in the presence of the victims. For these victims are used to create something, works of art, that are thrown to the consumption of a world which destroyed them.

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  Art, Suffering, Way

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• An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

  Theodor Adorno

  Hands, Differences, Culture

  Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.79, Univ of California Press

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• All the world's not a stage.

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  World, Stage

  "Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life". Book by Theodor W. Adorno, 1951.

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• Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.

  Theodor Adorno

  Talent, Rage

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.109, Verso

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• The jargon of authenticity ... is a trademark of societalized chosenness, ... sub-language as superior language.

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  Jargon, Language, Authenticity

  "The Jargon of Authenticity". Book by Theodor W. Adorno, 1964.

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• By abstaining from all definite content, whether as formal logic and theory of science or as the legend of Being beyond all beings, philosophy declared its bankruptcy regarding concrete social goals.

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  Philosophy, Goal, Legends

  Theodor W. Adorno (2012). “Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords”, p.6, Columbia University Press

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• Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.

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  Life, Empty, Timeless

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.54, Verso

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• Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

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  Inspirational, Life, Art

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.222, Verso

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• All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

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  Decay, Blind, Satire

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.211, Verso

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• A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

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  Doe, Use, Rubber

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• Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.

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  Psychology, Horror

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.164, Verso

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• Philosophy ... must not bargain away anything of the emphatic concept of truth.

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  Philosophy, Bargains, Concepts

  Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.38, Univ of California Press

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• He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.

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  Running, Believe, Risk

  Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.38, Univ of California Press

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• History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

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  History, Doe, Language

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.219, Verso

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• Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.

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  Inspirational, Self, Play

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.130, Verso

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• Intelligence is a moral category.

  Theodor Adorno

  Moral, Categories

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.197, Verso

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• Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.

  Theodor Adorno

  Lying, Deceit, Needs

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.30, Verso

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