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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThis sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult 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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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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 nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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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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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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