When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
JEAN BAUDRILLARDWhat is a society without a heroic dimension?
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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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.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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