| Greenstreet: | What makes you depressed?
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| Žižek: | Seeing stupid people happy.
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| Greenstreet: | What do you owe your parents?
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| Žižek: | Nothing, I hope. I didn't spend a minute bemoaning their death.
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| Greenstreet: | What does love feel like?
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| Žižek: | Like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.
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| Greenstreet: | What is your favourite smell?
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| Žižek: | Nature in decay, like rotten trees.
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| Greenstreet: | Have you ever said 'I love you' and not meant it?
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| Žižek: | All the time. When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad-taste remarks.
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| Greenstreet: | What is the worst job you've done?
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| Žižek: | Teaching. I hate students, they are (as all people) mostly stupid and boring.
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| Greenstreet: | What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
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| Žižek: | That life is a stupid, meaningless thing that has nothing to teach you.
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| Greenstreet: | Tell us a secret.
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| Žižek: | Communism will win. |