Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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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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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What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.
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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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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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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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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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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