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• The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points.

  Theodor Adorno

  Distance, Two, People

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

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• It is Proust's courtesy to spare the reader the embarrassment of believing himself cleverer than the author.

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  Believe, Proust, Courtesy

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

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• The inadequacy of the purely purpose-oriented form is revealed for what it is-a monotonous, impoverished boring practicality.

  Theodor Adorno

  Purpose, Boring, Form

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• Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.

  Theodor Adorno

  Jew, Rumours, Anti Semitism

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.110, Verso

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• Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.

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  Memories, Past, Leftovers

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• The new human type cannot be properly understood without awareness of what he is continuously exposed to from the world of things about him, even in his most secret innervations.

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  Secret, Culture, World

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.40, Verso

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• The idea that after this war life will continue 'normally' or even that culture might be 'rebuilt' - as if the rebuilding of culture were not already its negation - is idiotic.

  Theodor Adorno

  War, Ideas, Culture

  Theodor W. Adorno, Rolf Tiedemann (2003). “Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader”, p.46, Stanford University Press

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• In myths the warrant of grace was the acceptance of sacrifice; it is this acceptance that love, the re-enactment of sacrifice, beseeches if it is not to feel under a curse.

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  Love, Acceptance, Sacrifice

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.217, Verso

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• The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the context of profane existence, and in which special laws apply.

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  Art, Self, Law

  Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer (1997). “Dialectic of Enlightenment”, p.19, Verso

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• The empirical usability of the sacred ceremonial words makes both the speaker and listener believe in their corporeal presence.

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  Believe, Sacred, Usability

  Theodor Adorno (2013). “The Jargon of Authenticity”, p.19, Routledge

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• In the end, the writer is not even allowed to live in his writing.

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  Writing, Ends

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.87, Verso

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• The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good olddays. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physicaldemythologization, free of the spell of hieratic pacing, rooflesswandering, breathless flight. Human dignity insisted on the right towalk, a rhythm not extorted from the body by command or terror. Thewalk, the stroll, were private ways of passing time, the heritage ofthe feudal promenade in the nineteenth century.

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  Heritage, Body, Way

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• The law of the innermost form of the essay is heresy

  Theodor Adorno

  Law, Form, Essays

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• Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion.

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  Dream, Reality, Differences

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• The only philosophy that can be practiced responsibly in the face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves from the standpoint of redemption. Knowledge has no light but that shed on the world by redemption: all else is reconstruction, mere technique. Perspectives must be fashioned that displace and estrange the world, that reveal its fissures and crevices, as indigent and distorted as it will one day appear in the Messianic light.

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  Philosophy, Light, Perspective

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• The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.

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  Looks, Pleasure, Sinner

  Theodor W. Adorno (1978). “Minima Moralia”, p.174, Verso

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• The important thing is not the planning of an Index Verborum Prohibitorum of current noble nouns, but rather the examination of their linguistic function.

  Theodor Adorno

  Important, Noble, Nouns

  Theodor W. Adorno (1973). “The Jargon of Authenticity”, p.6, Northwestern University Press

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• The expression if history in things is no other than that of past torment.

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  Past, Expression, Torment

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

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• What is or is not the jargon is determined by whether the word is written in an intonation which places it transcendently in opposition to its own meaning; by whether the individual words are loaded at the expense of the sentence, its propositional force, and the thought content.

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  Jargon, Determined, Individual

  Theodor W. Adorno (2003). “Adorno”, p.5, Psychology Press

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• And how comfortless is the thought that the sickness of the normal does not necessarily imply as its opposite the health of the sick, but that the latter usually only present, in a different way, the same disastrous pattern.

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  Health, Opposites, Sick

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.60, Verso

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• If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.

  Theodor Adorno

  Pride, Goods, Ideology

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.196, Verso

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• Thus is order ensured: some have to play the game because they cannot otherwise live, and those who could live otherwise are kept out because they do not want to play the game. It is as if the class from which independent intellectuals have defected takes its revenge, by pressing its demands home in the very domain where the deserter seeks refuge.

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  Revenge, Home, Independent

  "Minima Moralia: Reflexionen aus dem beschadigten Leben (Minima Moralia: Reflections From Damaged Life)". Book by Theodor Adorno (1951) translated by E. Jephcott (§ 1), 1974.

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• In the nineteenth century the Germans painted their dream and the outcome was invariably vegetable. The French needed only to paint a vegetable and it was already a dream.

  Theodor Adorno

  Dream, Vegetables, Outcomes

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

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• Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.

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  Art, Reality, Becoming

  Theodor W. Adorno (1982). “Prisms”, p.132, MIT Press

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• The dialectic cannot stop short before the conceptsof health and sickness, nor indeed before their siblings reason and unreason.

  Theodor Adorno

  Sibling, Health, Sickness

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.73, Verso

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