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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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you have to earn your grave

[...] daddy would not bankroll his son to follow a profession that was premised on not making a living. As his biographers put it: ‘His parents pushed for a career with some earning potential and steadfastly refused the kind of support that would enable Benjamin to live independently while continui…

—p.166 Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School Part III: The 1930s (123) by Stuart Jeffries
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Fromm on criminal justice

[...] In two papers on the criminal justice system, he argued that the state presented itself subconsciously as a father and therefore ruled through the fear of paternal punishment; he also contended that it had a class bias and that, by focusing on crime and punishment rather than tackling the opp…

—p.152 Part III: The 1930s (123) by Stuart Jeffries
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happily consumed like whiskey

[...] Brecht hoped that there would be an abrasion between the grandeur of the opera house and the harsh message. Instead, it became another culinary treat in the operatic repertory, aberrantly decoded by its audiences and then happily consumed like whiskey. [...]

—p.134 Part III: The 1930s (123) by Stuart Jeffries
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agitprop

But the philosopher never shared the dramatist’s agitprop hopes.

—p.134 Part III: The 1930s (123) by Stuart Jeffries
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