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Quote by Slavoj Zizek
You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy chi

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed. – Slavoj Zizek

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I – and I still consider myself, Im sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldnt help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure. – Slavoj Zizek

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