Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDSeduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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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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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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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.
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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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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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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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