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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."
Greatness

"Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore."
Being

"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."
Man

"Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price."
Sex

"The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real."
Reading

"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. 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."
Love

"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."
Paradise

"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."
God

"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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"Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration."
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"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
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"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Genius: the superhuman in man."
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"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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