There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThe 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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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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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It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.
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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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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, 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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The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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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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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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