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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDPerhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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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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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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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