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.
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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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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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It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.
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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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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The order of the world is always right – such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.
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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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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 abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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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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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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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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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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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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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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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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