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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDAmericans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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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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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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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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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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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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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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