We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDEverything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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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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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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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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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