The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDSanta 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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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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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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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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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 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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