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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThe 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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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