We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDWhat 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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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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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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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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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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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.
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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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The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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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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It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.
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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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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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