Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDOnly facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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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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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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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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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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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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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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Deep 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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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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