The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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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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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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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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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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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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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