There is nothing funny about Halloween.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDTelevision 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 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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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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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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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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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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When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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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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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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