Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThere is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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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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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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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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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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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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.
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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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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