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 BAUDRILLARDThis 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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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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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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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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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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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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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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