He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

Quote by Theodor Adorno

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Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

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...

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the...

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the...

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

He who integrates is lost.

He who integrates is lost.

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...

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

The whole is the false.

The whole is the false.

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

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.

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

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

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

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...

There is no love that is not an echo.

There is no love that is not an echo.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed...

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed...

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

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,...