Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDOnly facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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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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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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other’s heart.
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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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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 abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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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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The order of the world is always right – such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.
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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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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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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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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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