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"The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself."
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"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation."

"I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing."

"I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg."

"Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover."

"I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale."

"Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers."

"I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples."
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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."

"Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out."

"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."

"Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live."

"The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry."

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

"Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not."
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