Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThis is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other’s heart.
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This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other’s heart.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.
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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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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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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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