This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThe 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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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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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other’s heart.
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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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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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