For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

Quote by Theodor Adorno

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and...

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and...

Intelligence is a moral category.

Intelligence is a moral category.

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.

The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one...

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one...

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own...

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own...

Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of...

Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of...

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

There is no love that is not an echo.

There is no love that is not an echo.

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has...

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has...

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself,...

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself,...

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants....

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants....

He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.

He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.

Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.

Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.

If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their...

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their...

He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image...

He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image...