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"Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete."

Vaneigem, Raoul on work
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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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"Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own."

Vaneigem, Raoul on books - reading
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"To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects."

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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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"Purchasing power is a license to purchase power."

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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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