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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.

Jean Baudrillard

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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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Black Circle Dead Dispossess Drag Every Future Isolate Love Murder Shadow Someone Star Trace World
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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Ahead Blockhead Great Person Set Smart Something Themselves Time
You are born modern, you do not become so.
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Become Born Modern So You
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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Abuse Innocense Language Pleasure Resist Sentence Stupefied Take
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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Double Effect Heart Hold Play Pleasure Possible Share Stock
Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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Being Bore Boredom Crime First Perhaps Second World Worst
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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Bluff Conscience Deep Down Good Primitive Refinement Remain Society Space Technological
We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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Between Enigma Foundation Greatness Negative never Realisation Resolve Shall
There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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Empty Left More Mysterious Nothing Room Set Television
There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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Aphrodisiac Innocense Like No
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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Always God Judgement Order Right Such World
Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.
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Believe Deep Down Live No One Really Right
It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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Always Ask Force Liberate Once Same
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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Acceptance Achieve Advertise Commit Credibility Govern Scenario Today
This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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Adult Children Demand Festival Interfere Rather Reflect Revenge Sarcastic World
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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Dark Day Embody Fear Know Night No Other Perpetual Right Side Television

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