Each component of the organism, like the individual in the social body, possesses the capacity for enjoyment of the self through sharing with others.

Daydreaming subverts the world.

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted, until that death which is not the

There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.

The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation.

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.