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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDOnly facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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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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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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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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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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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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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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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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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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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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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