Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

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.

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

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

Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.