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.
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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The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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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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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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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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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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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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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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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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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