The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThe very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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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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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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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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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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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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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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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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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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The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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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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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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