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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDA negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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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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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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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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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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