What is a society without a heroic dimension?
JEAN BAUDRILLARDA negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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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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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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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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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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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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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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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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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