Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.

Kitsch evokes a future utopia looking back at a past that is selectively (mis)remembered, thereby helping to stabilize the present toward which kitsch is otherwise deeply anatagonistic.

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.