What is a society without a heroic dimension?
JEAN BAUDRILLARDIt 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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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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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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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 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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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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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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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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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