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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDA negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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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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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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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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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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