What is a society without a heroic dimension?
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThere is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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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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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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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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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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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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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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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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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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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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved – commitment to a scenario.
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It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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