Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.
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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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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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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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This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other’s heart.
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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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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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