It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThere exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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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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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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The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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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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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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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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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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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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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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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