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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDIn 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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The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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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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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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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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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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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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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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If 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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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