Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDIt is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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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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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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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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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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.
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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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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