Theodor W. Adorno

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Theodor W. Adorno ( ə-DOR-noh, German: [ˈteːodoːɐ̯ ʔaˈdɔʁno] ; born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund; 11 September 1903 – 6 August 1969) was a German philosopher, musicologist, and social theorist.

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There is no love that is not an echo.

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The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

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Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

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Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

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Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

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The admonitions to be happy, voiced in concert by the . . . sanatorium director and the . . . propaganda chiefs of the entertainment industry, have about them the fury of the father berating his children for not rushing joyously downstairs when he comes home irritable from his office. It is part of the mechanism of domination to forbid recognition of the suffering it produces, and there is a direct line of development between the gospel of happiness and the construction of camps of extermination so far off in Poland that each of our own countrymen can convince himself that he cannot hear the screams of pain.

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Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

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Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

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