There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThere is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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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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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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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The 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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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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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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