Minima Moralia

Reflections from Damaged Life

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by Theodor Adorno

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Due/Published March 1981, pages, paper

ISBN 0860917045

A book of aphorisms with one of my all-time favorite aphorisms (pardon the paraphrase, my copy is gone): In the nineteenth century the Germans would paint a dream and it would inevitably turn out like a vegetable; the French would paint a vegetable and it would already be a dream.