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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDEverything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.
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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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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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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 very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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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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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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