Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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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 is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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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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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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 sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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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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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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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