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"In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create."
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"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."
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"The only soap of a dirty society is the clean men, only the clean can wash the grimy!"
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"In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption."
"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."
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"Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own."
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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."
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