Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men. |
Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology. |
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live. |
He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself. Topics: Love |
Normality is death. |
The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice. |
Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people. |
The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated. |
The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality. |
The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings. |
The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday. |
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength. Topics: Love |
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. |
Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated. |
Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination. Topics: Art |
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. Topics: Art |
But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain. |
An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences. |
The whole is the false. |