Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
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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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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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 is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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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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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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