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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDSeduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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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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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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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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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.
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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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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 abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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