The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDAmericans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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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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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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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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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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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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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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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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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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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