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Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.
But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.
An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
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.
A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.
Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.
History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.
In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.