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...the beautiful in nature is like a spark flashing momentarily and disappearing as soon as one tries to get hold of it.Theodor Adorno
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Words tend to bounce off nature as they try to deliver nature's language into the hands of another language foreign to it.Theodor Adorno
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Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.Theodor Adorno
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Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.Theodor Adorno
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Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.Theodor Adorno
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Intelligence is a moral category.Theodor Adorno
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The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.Theodor Adorno
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Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.Theodor Adorno
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Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.Theodor Adorno
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Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.Theodor Adorno
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The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.Theodor Adorno
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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.Theodor Adorno
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Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.Theodor Adorno
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If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.Theodor Adorno
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Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.Theodor Adorno
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True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.Theodor Adorno
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Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.Theodor Adorno