Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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 is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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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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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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