You are born modern, you do not become so.

One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.

The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. 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.

The multiplication of individual sects should not fool us: the important point is that the whole of America is preoccupied with the sect as a moral institution, with its immediate demand for beatification, its material efficacity, its compulsion for justification, and doubtless also with its madness and frenzy.

The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage.