The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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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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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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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 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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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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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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