In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDAmericans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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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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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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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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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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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Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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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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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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