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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThe very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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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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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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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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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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.
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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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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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