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 nothing funny about Halloween.
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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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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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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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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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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The order of the world is always right – such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.
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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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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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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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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