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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDEverything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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 very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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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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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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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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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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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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