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“If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things — they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great."

[Six Questions for Slavoj Žižek, Harper's Magazine, November 11, 2011]”
― Slavoj Žižek

“Happiness was never important. The problem is that we don't know what we really want. What makes us happy is not to get what we want. But to dream about it. Happiness is for opportunists. So I think that the only life of deep satisfaction is a life of eternal struggle, especially struggle with oneself. If you want to remain happy, just remain stupid. Authentic masters are never happy; happiness is a category of slaves.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“Ultimately,we hear things because we cannot see everything.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Gaze and Voice as Love Objects