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Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do. — Oscar Wilde

The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and aggressively to the commodity form. The need for possessing, consuming, handling and constantly renewing the gadgets, devices, instruments,

"The wicked act is a transfer onto others of the degradation that one carries within oneself." —Simone Weil

“It is horrible to think that the world could one day be filled with nothing but those little cogs, little men clinging to little jobs and striving towards bigger ones - a state of affairs which is to be seen once more, as in the Egyptian records, playing an ever-increasing part

"and don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.” ― Charles Bukowski

“Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots.” ― Slavoj Žižek

“The United States, for two centuries now, has been obsessed with God and with guns, and neither fascination is likely to wane... The relevance of Cormac McCarthy is absolute; he is the Homer of our tragic epic of slaughter and religiosity.” — Harold Bloom

“What is progress? That we can drive faster on the roads? No, progress is the rest the body needs and the peace the soul requires. Progress is man’s well being.” ― Knut Hamsun

I wake up like a stray dog belonging to no one. Cold, cold, and the rain. Friendships outgrown or ruined. And love, dear God, the women I have loved now only names remembered: dead, lost, or old. Mildness more and more the danger. Living among the rocks and weeds to guard against

“It's no good closing your eyes, you must leave them open in the dark, that is my opinion. I am not speaking of sleep, I am speaking of what I believe is called waking.” —Samuel Beckett

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“Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.” —Gore Vidal

“The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no business having children. They are unqualified, either genetically or culturally or both, to reproduce such sorry specimens as themselves. Of all our

"Each person nourishes his immortality in the ideology of self-perpetuation to which he gives self-allegiance; this gives life the only abiding significance it can have. No wonder men go into a rage over fine points of belief: if your adversary wins the argument about truth,

"The people on the right make me hate the right, the people on the left make me hate the left. In fact, with a man of the right, I am on the left; with a man of the left, I am on the right." — Emil Cioran

“Indeed, freedom and the capacity for disobedience are inseparable; hence any social, political, and religious system which proclaims freedom, yet stamps out disobedience, cannot speak the truth.” ― Erich Fromm

“To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth—I count that something of a miracle.” —Henry Miller

Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life. ~ Eric Hoffer

“Some of the worst tyrannies of our day genuinely are "vowed" to the service of mankind, yet can function only by pitting neighbor against neighbor. The all-seeing eye of a totalitarian regime is usually the watchful eye of the next-door neighbor.” —Eric Hoffer

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