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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDDriving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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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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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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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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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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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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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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The world is not dialectical – it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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