Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDIn 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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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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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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The order of the world is always right – such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.
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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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
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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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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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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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