We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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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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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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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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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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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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
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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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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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