Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDDeep 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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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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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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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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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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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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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