You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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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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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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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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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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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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.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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