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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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"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."

"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."

"People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want."

"I thought that if I owned nothing, had nothing, was nothing, I would have nothing left to lose, and I wouldn't be scared anymore. Because my whole life I've been so damn scared. Scared to live because I was scared to die. But at the same I was so scared of living, so I wanted to die. Or maybe so scared of dying that I refused to live. You don't have to be afraid to fall, when you're already on the ground. You don't have to be scared to lose someone, when there's no one around to lose."

"Fear makes you a stranger to yourself."

"Cautiously, he moved further out, checking the roofs, doors, windows. Nothing. He walked out further, keeping against the wooden wall of a building, just in case. His heart was pounding in his ears. Strange, isn't it? You could be in hundreds of fights, but everyone always seemed like the first time. A million different things could happen, go completely wrong. Then it might well be his last. Where is he? Which building?"
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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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it."


"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."


"Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated."


"We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself."
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