There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDAmericans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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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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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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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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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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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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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