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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDWhat is a society without a heroic dimension?
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult 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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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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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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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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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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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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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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