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Poverty
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As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
-Raoul Vaneigem
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Power
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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.
-Raoul Vaneigem
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Revolution
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People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.
-Raoul Vaneigem
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Wealth
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To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.
-Raoul Vaneigem
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Reading
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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
-Raoul Vaneigem
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Twentieth Century
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Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.
-Raoul Vaneigem
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Work
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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.
-Raoul Vaneigem
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Class
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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.
-Raoul Vaneigem
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Ordinary
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We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.
-Raoul Vaneigem
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Diplomacy
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Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way.
-Daniele Vare
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