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Raoul Vaneigem (born 1934) is a Belgian writer and philosopher. He was born in Lessines (Hainaut, Belgium). After studying romance philology at the Universit Libre de Bruxelles from 1952 to 1956, he participated in the Situationist International from 1961 to 1970. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted, until that death which is not the"

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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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"People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination. This means that people are not really tired of comfort, culture and leisure, but of the use to which they are"

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"Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all modern conveniences, distractions of all kinds, culture for all, the comfort of your dreams."

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"The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation."

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"Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it."

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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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