Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThere exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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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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