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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThe very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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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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Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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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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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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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Seduction 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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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 sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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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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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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