The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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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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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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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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The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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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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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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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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