Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDSeduction 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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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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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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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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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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 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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