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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDIt 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 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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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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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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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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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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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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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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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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 nothing funny about Halloween.
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