I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDDeep 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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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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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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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 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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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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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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Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
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