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Par ses positions courageuses en faveur de la légalisation de la drogue et de la création d'un statut des prostitués des deux sexes, par celles plus convenues sur les sans-papiers et les conditions de vie des prisonniers, Frédéric Beigbeder était peu à peu devenu une sorte de Sartre des années 2010, ceci à la surprise générale et un peu à la sienne
... See moreMichel Houellebecq • La carte et le territoire (French Edition)
we live in an extremely controlling society in which authority has disappeared.
Paul Verhaeghe • What About Me?: The Struggle for Identity in a Market-Based Society

Ce qui est effacé, ce sont les contradictions inhérentes à chacun de nous. Ceux d’entre nous qui révèlent des failles et des inconsistances ou formulent des idées impopulaires deviennent terrifiants pour ceux qui sont pris dans le monde du conformisme d’entreprise et de censure qui rejette celui qui s’entête, celui qui est réfractaire, afin de mett
... See moreBret Easton Ellis • White - édition française (French Edition)
but I was obsessive about maintaining an email-based newsletter for the band and for the house parties. I could send out an email to fifty Boston friends, they would spread the word, and two weeks later, hundreds
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
About a week ago I was sitting in L.A.’s chicest nightclub with a few friends and the DJ was playing Yaz and Bowie and the videos were on and I was on my third gin and tonic and I realized that no matter where I am it’s always the same.
Bret Easton Ellis • The Informers (Vintage Contemporaries)
The main problem with mass media is that it makes it impossible to fall in love with any acumen of normalcy. There is no “normal,” because everybody is being twisted by the same sources simultaneously. You can’t compare your relationship with the playful couple who lives next door, because they’re probably modeling themselves after Chandler Bing an
... See moreChuck Klosterman • Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
But what else is one to do at college except drink beer or slash your wrists?