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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDEverything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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If 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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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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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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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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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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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The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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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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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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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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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Cowardice 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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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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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