Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDSeduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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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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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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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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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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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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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Seduction 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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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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This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other’s heart.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
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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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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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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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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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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