Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThis sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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 is a society without a heroic dimension?
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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 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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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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