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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDOnly facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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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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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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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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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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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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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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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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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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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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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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.
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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