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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/1938/">Quotes by <em>Debord, Guy</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

Guy Debord (born December 28, 1931 in Paris; died November 30, 1994 in Auvergne) was a member of the Lettrist International, Socialisme ou Barbarie and a founder and chief essayist of the Situationist International (SI). · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter."

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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."

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"In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation."

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"Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea."

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"Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us."

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"Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs."

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"Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always."

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"Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal."

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"It is hardly surprising that children should enthusiastically start their education at an early age with the Absolute Knowledge of computer science; while they are unable to read, for reading demands making judgments at every line. Conversation is almost dead, and soon so too will be those who knew how to speak."

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