Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDIf 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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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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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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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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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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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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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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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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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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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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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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