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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThe abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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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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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 very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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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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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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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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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.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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