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"Number alone is allowed, honored, protected, and recompensed. Since number does not think, since it is an...instrument...that never asks...whether it is made to serve the oppression of humankind or its deliverance,...the military leader of this era wanted no other emissary."
-Lamartine, 1834
— Sep 02, 2023 11:33AM
-Lamartine, 1834
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The experience of our generation: that capitalism will not die a natural death.
— Aug 29, 2023 08:14PM
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There has never been an epoch that did not feel itself to be "modern" in the sense of eccentric, and did not believe itself to be standing directly before an abyss. The desperately clear consciousness of being in the middle of a crisis is something chronic in humanity.
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Benjamin sure does spend an awful lot of time playing the fool when it comes to sex work. It's really not that hard, bro.
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Baudelaire confesses to having had, "in childhood, the good fortune—or the misfortune—of reading only books for adults."
— Aug 16, 2023 08:01PM
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(It would be interesting to study the bibliophile as the only type of collector who has not completely withdrawn [their] treasures from their functional context.)
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As life becomes more subject to administrative norms, people must learn to wait more. Games of chance possess the great charm of freeing people from having to wait.
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Do I remember half of what I thought I knew when I first added this? No. Am I still going to attempt to read it? What else is living for?
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