The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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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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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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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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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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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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 is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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