The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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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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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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 exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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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