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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDIt is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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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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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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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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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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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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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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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