Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDWe shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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 world is not dialectical – it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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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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The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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