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The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves.


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Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.



People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have.

People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have.



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

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



Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.



There is no love that is not an echo.

There is no love that is not an echo.



Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.

Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.



The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness

The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness



For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.



True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.



Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.





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