Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDDriving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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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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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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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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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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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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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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Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
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