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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDWe shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
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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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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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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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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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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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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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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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