The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThere is nothing funny about Halloween.
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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This 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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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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