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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDIt only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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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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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.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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 always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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