The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDWhat 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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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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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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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If 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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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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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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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This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other’s heart.
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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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The world is not dialectical – it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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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 sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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