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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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"Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing."

"I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L.A."

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

"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation."

"Losing my anonymity in this world I think is something that I find terrifying."

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

"I don't mind losing, but I don't like losing to cheats."

"I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg."
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"Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out."

"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."

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

"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."

"In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create."

"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."

"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."
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