There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDGoverning 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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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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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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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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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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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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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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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 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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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 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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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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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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