Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDIf you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
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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.
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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.
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Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.
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It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
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What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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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.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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