Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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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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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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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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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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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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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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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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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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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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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