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"Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category."
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"Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane."
Art
"Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline."
Work
"History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it."
History
"If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods."
Business
"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."
Happiness
"Intelligence is a moral category."
Intelligence
"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."
Age
"If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward."
Time
"Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar."
Love
"To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults."
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"And here is the shocking plot twist: as farmers produced those extra calories, the food industry figured out how to get them into the bodies of people who didn't really want to eat 700 more calories a day."
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"Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly."
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"The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements."
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"It struck him that the true characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness."
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"For millions of years, man spoke only to what he could see. Suddenly, in just one decade, 'seeing' and 'speaking' have been separated. We think we're used to it, yet we don't realize the immense impact it's had on our reflexes. Our bodies are simply not used to it. Frankly, the result is that, when we talk on the telephone, we enter a state that is similar to certain magical trances; we can discover other things about ourselves."
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"Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category."
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"To return to antiquity [in literature]: that has been done. To return to the Middle Ages: that too has been done. Remains the present day. But the ground is shaky: so where can you set the foundations? An answer to this question must be found if one is to produce anything vital and hence lasting. All this disturbs me so much that I no longer like to be spoken to about it."
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"Everything is much easier in the half-blind and half-deaf world of modern giants that seduce processions of the blind into the world of great emptiness. In their sky the stars shine and their names live in the parallel and independently of their work."
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"This new world was a vicious, sleek world made of street lights and tight jeans, sharp smiles and fast cars. This was a city, edited. A city, pared down to its bare minimums, beautiful and abusive."
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"You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition."
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