The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDGoverning 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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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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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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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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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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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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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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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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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 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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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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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