You are born modern, you do not become so.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDSeduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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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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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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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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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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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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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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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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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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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