The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThere exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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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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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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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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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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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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