Theodor Adorno Quotes on Illusion
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'Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.'
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'Everywhere bourgeois society insists on the exertion of will; only love is supposed to be involuntary, pure immediacy of feeling. In its longing for this, which means a dispensation from work, the bourgeois idea of love transcends bourgeois society. But in erecting truth directly amid the general untruth, it perverts the former into the latter.'
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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.'