The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
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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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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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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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 nothing funny about Halloween.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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