Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.

There is no true life within a false life.

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.

To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

Thus is order ensured: some have to play the game because they cannot otherwise live, and those who could live otherwise are kept out because they do not want to play the game. It is as if the class from which independent intellectuals have defected takes its revenge, by pressing its demands home in the very domain where the deserter seeks refuge.

The positive element of kitsch lies in the fact that it sets free for a moment the glimmering realization that you have wasted your life.