There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDDeep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.
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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.
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The order of the world is always right – such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.
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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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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved – commitment to a scenario.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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