Belgian - Philosopher | March 21, 1934 -
Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.
Raoul Vaneigem
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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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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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Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
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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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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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As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
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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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To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.
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Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.
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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.
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