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 BAUDRILLARDYou are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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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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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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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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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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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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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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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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