“A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided ...” — Jean Baudrillard Quote

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

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.

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.

Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And it's true that people who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent tend to be more jealous than others.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.

I face so much jealousy, and I am incredibly upset about it.

I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it.