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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDWe shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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You 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 is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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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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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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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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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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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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I 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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