The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDSeduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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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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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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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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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