The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
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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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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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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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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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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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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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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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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