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He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

Theodor Adorno
Betrayal, Past, Doe
Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.166, Verso

Kitsch evokes a future utopia looking back at a past that is selectively (mis)remembered, thereby helping to stabilize the present toward which kitsch is otherwise deeply anatagonistic.

Theodor Adorno
Past, Kitsch, Helping
Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.363, Univ of California Press

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

Theodor Adorno
Past, Catastrophe, Ifs
Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.49, Verso

Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.

Theodor Adorno
Memories, Past, Leftovers

The expression if history in things is no other than that of past torment.

Theodor Adorno
Past, Expression, Torment
Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.49, Verso

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