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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDAmericans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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What 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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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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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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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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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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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.
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