There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThe sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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 only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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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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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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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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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 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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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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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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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 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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