A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDNever 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 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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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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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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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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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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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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