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.
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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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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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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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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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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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 very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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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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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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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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