In 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.
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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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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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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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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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.
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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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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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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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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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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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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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