The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDCowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
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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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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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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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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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