Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.

People are bewitched into believing that time slips away, and this belief is the basis of time actually slipping away.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection

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

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure time it had was passed pleasantly enough in conversations, arguments, drinking, making love, wandering, celebrating and rioting. The new proletarian sells his labour power in order to consume. When he’s not flogging himself to death to get promoted in the labour hierarchy, he’s being persuaded to buy himself objects to distinguish himself in the social hierarchy. The ideology of consumption becomes the consumption of ideology.

The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life.