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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

To say ‘we’ and mean ‘I’ is one of the most recondite insults.

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.

Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.