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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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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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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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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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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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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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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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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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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