The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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 very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
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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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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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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