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All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.


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Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.

Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.



In our society now, we prefer to see ourselves living than living.

In our society now, we prefer to see ourselves living than living.



Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.



The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.

The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.



In a world that has REALLY been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood.

In a world that has REALLY been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood.



The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.

The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.



Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.

Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.



... just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having to appearing.

... just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having to appearing.



Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.



The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of that sleep.

The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of that sleep.





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Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.



Punctuation are like road signs

Punctuation are like road signs



...It's not okay." He spoke jerkily, painfully. "I will hurt you, and I will leave you, and I will cheat on you.

...It's not okay." He spoke jerkily, painfully. "I will hurt you, and I will leave you, and I will cheat on you.



I want to be your personal penguin.Please?

I want to be your personal penguin.Please?



I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.

I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.



Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.

Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.



I am a defensive tackle that no matter the situation, even if it is in nickel, I can go in there and rush the passer. And I can help the team out on first and second, too. I will get pressure.

I am a defensive tackle that no matter the situation, even if it is in nickel, I can go in there and rush the passer. And I can help the team out on first and second, too. I will get pressure.



My love though silly is more brave.

My love though silly is more brave.



You must follow Jesus for yourself, but you can’t follow Him by yourself.

You must follow Jesus for yourself, but you can’t follow Him by yourself.



A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.

A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.




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