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'Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.'

— Theodor Adorno

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  1. 'Genuine things are those to which commodities and other means of exchange can be reduced, particularly gold. But like gold, genuineness, a…
  2. 'He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.'
  3. 'Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.'
  4. 'He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.'
  5. 'For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.'
  6. 'He who integrates is lost.'
  7. 'Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.'
  8. 'He who matures early lives in anticipation.'

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  • psychology
  • society
  • economics
  • happiness
  • value
  • well being

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