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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDDriving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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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 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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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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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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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
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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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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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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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