A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDIt is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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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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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 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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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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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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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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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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Santa 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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