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Sure, I rose the wrong way today, I have had such damnd ill luck every way. Aphra Behn		Thursday Apr 24, 2025
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About Theodore W. Adorno

	Theodore W. Adorno
	(1903-1969) B. Theodore Weisengrund German aesthetician, music critic, philosopher.

Popular Theodore W. Adorno Quotes

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence.

A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure.

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