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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThere 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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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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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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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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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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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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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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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
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