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Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

~Guy Debord

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Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

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In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.

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Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.

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All that was once directly lived has become mere representation.

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Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

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There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.

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Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

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As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that they actually live.

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Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Writer

Born: December 28th, 1931

Died: November 30th, 1994

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