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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDEverything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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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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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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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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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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 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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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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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 real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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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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