When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThere is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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The 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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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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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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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To 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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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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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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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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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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 is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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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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