We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDLike 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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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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Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.
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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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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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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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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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