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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDCowardice 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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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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 only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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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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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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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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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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