When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
JEAN BAUDRILLARDIt is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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 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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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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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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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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