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 BAUDRILLARDDriving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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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Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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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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