The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDIn 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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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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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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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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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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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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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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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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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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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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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