There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThe real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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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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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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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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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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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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.
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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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