Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDSanta 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 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 sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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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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The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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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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Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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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 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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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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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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