But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.

The objective tendency of the Enlightenment, to wipe out the power of images over man, is not matched by any subjective progress on the part of enlightened thinking towards freedom from images.

Kitsch parodies catharsis...It is in vain to try to draw the boundaries abstractly between aesthetic fiction and kitsch's emotional plunder. It is a poison admixed to all art; excising it is today one of art's despairing efforts.

It is barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz.

Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.

When I made my theoretical model, I could not have guessed that people would try to realise it with Molotov cocktails.