The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThe very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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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 sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved – commitment to a scenario.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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