Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDWhat 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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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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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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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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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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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 abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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