Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDTo 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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
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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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The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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