We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThe 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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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
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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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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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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.
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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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