What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThere exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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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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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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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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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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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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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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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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