We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDTelevision 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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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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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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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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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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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
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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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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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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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