There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
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