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 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 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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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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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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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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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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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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