Quote by Jean Baudrillard
We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the nega

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

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Here in the U.S., culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has its own special columns in the newspapers – Jean Baudrillard

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America
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We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate. – Jean Baudrillard

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Excess
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A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth — either epileptic or dead. – Jean Baudrillard

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Humanity
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Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary — they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. – Elias Canetti

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The safest course is to do nothing against ones conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death. – Voltaire

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Death

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. – Denis Diderot

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Government

Along about the beginning of February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer, I caught one of those colds which last for two days in the children and two weeks with me. – Shirley Jackson, Raising Demons, 1957

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February