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Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

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Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

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Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

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Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

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Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.

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Normality is death.

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Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

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But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

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To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.

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True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Philosopher

Born: September 11th, 1903

Died: August 6th, 1969

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