It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDGoverning 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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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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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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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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