To hate destructiveness, one must hate life as well: only death is an image of undistorted life ... organic life is an illness peculiar to our unlovely planet.
Theodor AdornoAs a constellation, theoretical thought circles the concept it would like to unseal, hoping that it may fly open like the lock of a well-guarded safe-deposit box: in response, not to a single key or a single number, but to a combination of numbers
Theodor AdornoEven the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion.
Theodor Adorno