When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
JEAN BAUDRILLARDIt is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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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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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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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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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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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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