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To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.
Variant: Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.
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Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
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In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
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The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.
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True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.
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History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
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In the end, the writer is not even allowed to live in his writing.
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Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.
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The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.
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A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.
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The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.
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For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
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Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.
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Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth.
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No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.
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Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.
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Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
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If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.
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Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.
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Words of the jargon sound as if they said something higher than what they mean.
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Philosophy … must not bargain away anything of the emphatic concept of truth.
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Both are torn halves of an integral freedom, to which however they do not add up.
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Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.
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The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.
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Rigour and purity in assembling words, however simple the result, create a vacuum.
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The dressing up and puffing up of the individual erases the lineaments of protest.
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When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.
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Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
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Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.
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Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
Wyndham Lewis
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Born:
September 11, 1903
Died:
August 6, 1969
(aged 65)
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