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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThere is nothing funny about Halloween.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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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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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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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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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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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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