NONorman O. Brown

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Norman O. Brown

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Quotations and sayings

01Undated

The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation.

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02Undated

For two thousand years or more man has been subjected to a systematic effort to transform him into an ascetic animal. He remains a pleasure-seeking animal.

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03Undated

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

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04Undated

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

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05Undated

The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.

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