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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDPerhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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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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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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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What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.
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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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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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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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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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