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 BAUDRILLARDThere is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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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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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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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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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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The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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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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