We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.
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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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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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