The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDIn 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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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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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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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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 no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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