What is a society without a heroic dimension?
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThe 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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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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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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There is no aphrodisiac like 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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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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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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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