When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
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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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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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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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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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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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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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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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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