There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDIt 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 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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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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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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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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 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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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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 very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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