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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDCowardice 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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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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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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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.
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