The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThere is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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 very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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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 abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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The world is not dialectical – it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.
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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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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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