The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDIt only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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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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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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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 very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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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 is nothing funny about Halloween.
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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