It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDTo 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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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 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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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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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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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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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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The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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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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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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