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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.

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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.

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Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.

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The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

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In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.

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It is entirely up to us to invent our own lives.

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Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

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In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: Belgian

Type: Philosopher

Born: Unknown

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