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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

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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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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

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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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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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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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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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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. 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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Sociologist

Born: July 29th, 1929

Died: March 6th, 2007

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