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Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.
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For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
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He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
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Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.
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Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
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If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.
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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
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In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.
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A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.
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