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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThe abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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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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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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 exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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