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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDAmericans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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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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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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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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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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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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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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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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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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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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