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 BAUDRILLARDIt only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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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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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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 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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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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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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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Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.
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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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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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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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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.
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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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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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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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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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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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