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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDOnly facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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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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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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 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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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