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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDSeduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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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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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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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 funny about Halloween.
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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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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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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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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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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