A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDNever 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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When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
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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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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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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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What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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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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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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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved – commitment to a scenario.
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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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