The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDI hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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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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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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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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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.
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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 real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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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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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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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