A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDOnly facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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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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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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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
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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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The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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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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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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