- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.
- Busy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.
- Keep
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- Nov 07, 2020
The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.
- Books
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I do is sometimes - at least in Germany - met with wounding campaigns. I always face the question: should I grow myself a thick skin and ignore it, or should I let myself be wounded? I've decided to be wounded, since, if I grew a thick skin, there are other things I wouldn't feel any more.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not volunteer for the Waffen SS, but was, as were thousands of my year group, conscripted. I did not then know as a 17-year-old that it was a criminal unit. I thought it was an elite unit.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray.
- Forest
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing at an early age.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lies that do not hurt, which are different from lies that protect oneself or hurt another person. That is not my business. But the truth is mostly very boring, and you can help it along with lies. There is no harm in that.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in writing at night because it comes too easily. When I read it in the morning it's not good. I need daylight to begin. Between nine and ten o'clock I have a long breakfast with reading and music.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020