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HORKHEIMER: Kant's definition of marriage. Love probably contains the false negation of bourgeois society. ADORNO: It negates it in an impotent fashion, perpetuating it through its negation. HorKHeIMeR: The world is dominated by one long hymn to work, but this too is not merely negative. Machiavelli. ADORNO: Happiness is connected to work. HorKHEIMER: The worst thing is to mix up work and happiness. ADORNO: Effort is an integral part of sexual happiness. It is true enough that work is also happiness, but one isn't allowed to say so. Or do we only find happiness in our work because we ourselves are bourgeois? HORKHEIMER: Freud. Death-drive.