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"To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects."
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"Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor."
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"Poor fellow, he suffers from files."
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"I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor."
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"Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person."
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"The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor."
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"I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me."
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"This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."
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"Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle."
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"The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead."
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"Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me."
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"To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects."
Poor

"In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create."
Society

"We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity."
Dream

"Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not."
Knowledge

"The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself."
Losing

"Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it."
Nature

"As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life."
Life

"In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption."
Equality

"Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live."
Life

"People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth."
Love
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