The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

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.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

The thought that murders the wish that fathered it will be overtaken by the revenge of stupidity

The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject

The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.