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 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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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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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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 exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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