Paul Lafargue Le droit a la paresse (1883) |
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The Greeks in their era of greatness had only contempt for work: their slaves alone were permitted to labor: the free man knew only exercises for the body and mind. And so it was in this era that men like Aristotle, Phidias, Aristophanes moved and breathed among the people; it was the time when a handful of heroes at Marathon crushed the hordes of Asia, soon to be subdued by Alexander. The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from the Gods.
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Jehovah the bearded and angry god, gave his worshipers the supreme example of ideal laziness; after six days of work, he rests for all eternity.
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Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.
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Work, work, night and day. By working you make your poverty increase and your poverty releases us from imposing work upon you by force of law. The legal imposition of work gives too much trouble, requires too much violence and makes too much noise. Hunger, on the contrary, is not only a pressure which is peaceful, silent and incessant, but as it is the most natural motive for work and industry, it also provokes to the most powerful efforts. Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in order that becoming poorer, you may have more reason to work and become miserable.
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To fulfill his double social function of non-producer and over-consumer, the capitalist was not only obliged to violate his modest taste, to lose his laborious habits of two centuries ago and to give himself up to unbounded luxury, spicy indigestibles and syphilitic debauches, but also to withdraw from productive labor an enormous mass of men in order to enlist them as his assistants.
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Arturo Perez-Reverte La piel del tambor (1995) |
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Kurt Vonnegut God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine (1965) |
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Arthur Rimbaud Illuminations (1872-75) |
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Henry Miller Tropic of Cancer (1934) |
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Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio Desert (1980) |
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Judy Blume Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (1970) |
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Joris-Karl Huysmans A rebours (1884) |
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Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) |
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Arthur Conan Doyle A Study in Scarlet (1887) |
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Kurt Vonnegut The Sirens of Titan (1959) |
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Annie Proulx Brokeback Mountain (1997) |
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Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt Le Sumo qui ne pouvait pas grossir (2009) |
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Ray Bradbury Lets All Kill Constance (2002) |
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James Cain The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) |
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Washington Irving Short Stories (1819-1822) |
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James Hynes The Lecturer's Tale (2001) |
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