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 BAUDRILLARDThe 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 abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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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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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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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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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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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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