We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDI hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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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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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.
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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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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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