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«We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.»
Author: Raoul Vaneigem
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commonplace, controlling, manipulated, Manipulating, subjectivity, surrendering, thrusting, thrusts, thrust out
«People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.»
Author: Raoul Vaneigem
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class struggle, constraints, corpse, everyday life, explicitly, referring, refusal, subversive
«Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all modern conveniences, distractions of all kinds, culture for all, the comfort of your dreams.»
Author: Raoul Vaneigem
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conveniences, distractions, modern society, nipple, nipples, production, rising, standard, suckle, suckled, suckling
«The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.»
«The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.»
Author: Raoul Vaneigem
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arguing, inventing, making love, murdered, picking, picking up, The Streets
«The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation.»
Author: Raoul Vaneigem
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abundance, condemned, construct, controlling, convenience, enable, equipment, intolerable, liberation, plunges, richly, such that, The Organization
«Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.»
«Work to survive; survive by consuming; survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete»
«Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.»
«Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it.»
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