The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThe 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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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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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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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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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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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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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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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