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

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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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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry. – Raoul Vaneigem

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Poetry
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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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Dreams
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Even having to do the amount of press that I have to do is dreadful and gives me so much anxiety. After having done this whole slew of press for Big Love, now Ill have anxiety dreams for like a week and a half about all the stupid things I said. – Chloe Sevigny

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Dreams

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice. – Edward Moore

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Dreams

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations reality is therefore abandoned. – Emile Durkheim

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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

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It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning. – Claude Bernard

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People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made. – Joan Rivers

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