There is nothing funny about Halloween.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDCowardice 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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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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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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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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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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.
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