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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDIf 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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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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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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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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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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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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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The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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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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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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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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