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"It is in our authority and power to stop torment and sickness and deliver people from vanity."

"All human beings wield influence-a powerful sword granted at birth. Wield your sword with care."
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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 play of our subjectivity."

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?"
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