Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThe 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 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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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of 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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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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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
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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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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 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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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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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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