Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDAmericans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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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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The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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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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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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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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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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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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Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
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