Quote by Raoul Vaneigem
We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity. – Raoul Vaneigem

Other quotes by Raoul Vaneigem

People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth. – Raoul Vaneigem

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positive
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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not. – Raoul Vaneigem

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Knowledge
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In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption. – Raoul Vaneigem

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Equality
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Other Quotes from
Dreams
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I cant comprehend that Im in the film of Les Miserables. Its one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere. – Samantha Barks

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Dreams

How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams. – Bram Stoker

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Dreams

Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports. – Lois McMaster Bujold

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Dreams

I tell people, Its just like a cliche, but its true: In Hollywood, dreams can come true. – Michael Clarke Duncan

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Dreams

Random Quotes

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence. – William F. Buckley, Jr.

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Intelligence

Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other. – Joseph Addison

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Health

Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains. – Author and exact wording unknown, I’ve been told this was quoted by Paul H

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Civilization

There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be. – Norman Mailer (1923–2007)

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Sex