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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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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Afraid Again Bank Dare Deposit Hesitate Money Out Shall Take
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
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
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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Give Jealous Judgement More Negative Praise Provide Satisfaction Smack
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
You are born modern, you do not become so.
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Become Born Modern So You
Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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Discover Everything Obliterate
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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Another Communicate Dream Even Man Planet Stand Strange Talk Women
When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
JEAN BAUDRILLARD

Again Back Come Confession Entrust Ever Keep Priest Safe Sin
There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD

Between People Capital Each Exist Held Kind Love
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
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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Country Dominate Enter Fiction Fictive Indeed World
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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Antagonism Dialectical Equilibrium Evil Extreme Principle Radical Reconciliation Sworn Synthesis World
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
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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Affection Courage Cowardice Feeling Love Measure Mirror Play True
The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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Abjection Challenge Only Our Political Situation Today True

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