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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."
"A selfie has more face and fewer feelings."
"These days we have Smartphones, Smartcars, Smartboards, Smarteverything, but consider this: if technology is getting smarter, does that mean humans are getting dumber?"
"Widespread commercial distribution of ice was so new that 300 tons of the precious commodity melted at one port while customs officials tried to figure out how to classify it."
"The thinness of contemporary life. I can poke my finger through it."
"The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements."
"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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"Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices."
"The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power."
"In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes."
"The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us."
"Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane."
"Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem."
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