Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDIf 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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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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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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Television 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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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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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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The order of the world is always right – such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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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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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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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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