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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDDeep 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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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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The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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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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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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