Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDDeep 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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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Never 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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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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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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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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