Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDDriving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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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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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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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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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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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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