Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThe abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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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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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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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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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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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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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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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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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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