What is a society without a heroic dimension?
JEAN BAUDRILLARDIf 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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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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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Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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 very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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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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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.
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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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