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 BAUDRILLARDIt 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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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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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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 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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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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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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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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