"Ours must be the first age whose great goal, on a nonmaterial plane, is not fulfilment but adjustment; and perhaps just such a goal has served as maladjustment's weapon."

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“Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.”

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“One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.”

“Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.”

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