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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDSeduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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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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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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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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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