Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThe abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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 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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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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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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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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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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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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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved – commitment to a scenario.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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