German - Philosopher | September 11, 1903 - August 6, 1969
The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.
Theodor W. Adorno
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Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.
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The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.
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Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
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He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.
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Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.
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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
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The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.
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But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
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True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.
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The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
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The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
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