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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.

Jean Baudrillard

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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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Between Enigma Foundation Greatness Negative never Realisation Resolve Shall
It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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Believe Only Other Politician Say Stop Take
When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
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Again Back Come Confession Entrust Ever Keep Priest Safe Sin
Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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Desperation Face Get Help Out Political Situation
Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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Country Identity Teeth Wonderful
Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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Being Bore Boredom Crime First Perhaps Second World Worst
To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
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Black Circle Dead Dispossess Drag Every Future Isolate Love Murder Shadow Someone Star Trace World
This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other’s heart.
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Double Effect Heart Hold Play Pleasure Possible Share Stock
Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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Dream Form Fulfilment Like Statistic Wosh
Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.
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Disneyland Monotonous Mournful No Other Paradise People Superficial
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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Give Jealous Judgement More Negative Praise Provide Satisfaction Smack
Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
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Abuse Innocense Language Pleasure Resist Sentence Stupefied Take
I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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Afraid Again Bank Dare Deposit Hesitate Money Out Shall Take
What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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Dimension Heroic Society Without
The world is not dialectical – it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.
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Antagonism Dialectical Equilibrium Evil Extreme Principle Radical Reconciliation Sworn Synthesis World
It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.
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Another Communicate Dream Even Man Planet Stand Strange Talk Women

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