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Letter "G" » Guy deBord Quotes
«In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.»
Author: Guy deBord
(Social Reformer)
«Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.»
Author: Guy deBord
(Social Reformer)
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erases, implies, participates, plagiarism, replaces
«Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.»
«Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.»
«It is hardly surprising that children should enthusiastically start their education at an early age with the Absolute Knowledge of computer science; while they are unable to read, for reading demands making judgments at every line. Conversation is almost dead, and soon so too will be those who knew how to speak.»
Author: Guy deBord
(Social Reformer)
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computer science, enthusiastically, read between the lines, starting line, surprising
«There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.»
«Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.»
Author: Guy deBord
(Social Reformer)
«Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.»
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