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"Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you."
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"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture."
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"The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them."
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"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay."
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"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."
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"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."
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"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth."
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"Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture."
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"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."
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"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."
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"I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay."
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"What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life."
History
"Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd."
Beauty
"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
People
"Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them."
Chance
"I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally."
Life
"One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual."
Creativity
"One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator."
Life
"Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours."
Time
"Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you."
Cultural
"Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate."
Fate
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