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    Aldous Huxley
    “Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
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    Georges Bataille
    “Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror”
    ― Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
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    Marquis de Sade
    “In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.”
    ― Marquis de Sade
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    Karl Marx
    “The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”
    ― Karl Marx
    tags: duopoly, oppression, politics, representation, repression, society
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    Michel Foucault
    “Where there is power, there is resistance.”
    ― Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
    tags: activism, leftism, power, resistance
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    Karl Marx
    “The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save-the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour-your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life-the greater is the store of your estranged being.”
    ― Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
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    Slavoj Žižek
    “We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.”
    ― Slavoj Žižek, Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates
    tags: freedom, language
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    Diana Wynne Jones
    “A heart's a heavy burden.”
    ― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Noam Chomsky
    “Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: participate, responsibility, stop-terrorism, terror, terrorism
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    Mark Fisher
    “Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us.”
    ― Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
    tags: agency, authenticity, capital, capitalism, freedom, society, work
    117 likes

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    Guy Debord
    “The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.”
    ― Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle
    tags: critical, philosophy
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    Voltaire
    “‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: inspirational
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    John Reed
    “I suddenly realised that the devout Russian people no longer needed priests to pray them into heaven. On earth they were building a kingdom more bright than any heaven had to offer, and for which it was a glory to die….”
    ― John Reed, Ten Days that Shook the World
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    Anatole France
    “No, let us not conquer the heavens. It is enough to have the power to do so. War engenders war, and victory defeat. God, conquered, will become Satan; Satan, conquering, will become God. May the fates spare me this terrible lot!‎”
    ― Anatole France, The Revolt of the Angels
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Marquis de Sade
    “Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.”
    ― marquis de sade
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    Marquis de Sade
    “It is only by way of pain one arrives at pleasure”
    ― Marquis de Sade
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    Marquis de Sade
    “Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.”
    ― Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings
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    Marquis de Sade
    “The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.”
    ― Marquis de Sade, Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings
    tags: philosophy
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    Marquis de Sade
    “Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.”
    ― Marquis de Sade
    tags: lust, marquis-de-sade
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    Marquis de Sade
    “Sex without pain is like food without taste”
    ― Marquis de Sade
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    Karl Marx
    “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

    [These words are also inscribed upon his grave]”
    ― Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach
    tags: action, change, ideology, philosophy, resistance, struggle
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    Karl Marx
    “Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.

    Workingmen of all countries unite!”
    ― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
    tags: communism, communist-revolution, politics, proletariat, ruling-classic, tremble, unite
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    Gilles Deleuze
    “Bring something incomprehensible into the world!”
    ― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
    tags: art, individuality, inspirational, life, new, otherness
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    Michel Foucault
    “I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.”
    ― Michel Foucault
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    Michel Foucault
    “People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.”
    ― Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
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    Michel Foucault
    “Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting.”
    ― Michel Foucault, The Foucault Reader
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    Michel Foucault
    “Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.”
    ― Michel Foucault
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    Slavoj Žižek
    “If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.”
    ― Slavoj Žižek
    tags: love, philosophy
    467 likes



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