Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved – commitment to a scenario.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDOnly facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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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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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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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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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.
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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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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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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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