“ The less you eat and drink, the fewer books you buy, the less frequently you visit the theatre or go to balls, the less you think, love, sing, draw — the more you economize and the greater this fortune you possess… your capital. The less you exist, the more you have.
— Marx on the opposition between being and having, quoted in Lefebvre, Critique de la vie quotidienne vol. 1 (1958, 173)
