Every reader of the French or German papers knows that not a day passes without producing some uneasy discussion of supposed socia...l decrepitude;Mfalling off of the birthrate;Mdecline of rural population;Mlowering of army standards;Mmultiplication of suicides;Mincrease of insanity or idiocy,--of cancer,--of tuberculosis;Msigns of nervous exhaustion,--of enfeebled vitality,--"habits" of alcoholism and drugs,--failure of eyesight in the young,--and so on, without end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, an infinite capacity to process... data (but only data--i.e. the already given) and in no sense a new vision. With that science, we are entering an era of exhaustivity, which is also an era of exhaustion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Knowledge of Rome must be physical, sweated into the system, worked up into the brain through the thinning shoe-leather.... When i...t comes to knowing, the senses are more honest than the intelligence. Nothing is more real than the first wall you lean up against sobbing with exhaustion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The so-called new Russian man is characterized mainly by his complete exhaustion. You may find yourself wondering if he has the st...rength to enjoy his new-found freedom. He is like a long- distance runner who, on reaching the finishing line, is incapable even of raising his hands in a gesture of victory.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has no center, only a spreading dea...d zone of exhaustion, inertia, and brilliant decay.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Gustav Aschenbach was the writer who spoke for all those who work on the brink of exhaustion, who labor and are heavy-laden, who a...re worn out already but still stand upright, all those moralists of achievement who are slight of stature and scanty of resources, but who yet, by some ecstasy of the will and by wise husbandry, manage at least for a time to force their work into a semblance of greatness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You know, there's one thing wrong with living in a palace. It takes so long to get from one place to another. I live in a constant... state of exhaustion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »