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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDAt 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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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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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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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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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Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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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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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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