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.
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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The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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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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Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
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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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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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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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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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