What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
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Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.
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Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
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An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
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The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.
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