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Quote by Theodor Adorno
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be d

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. – Theodor Adorno

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Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. – Theodor Adorno

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