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 an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create. – Raoul Vaneigem

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Industry
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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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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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Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else. – Alphonse Karr

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I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot. – Bill Gates

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Dreams

Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life. – Vikram Chatwal

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Dreams

Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much nicer type of girl that way. – Vivian Mercer

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The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter. – Susanne K. Langer

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Im hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career – they are so fun and witty. – Louise Jameson

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. – T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1919

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There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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