Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDPerhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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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 abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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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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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.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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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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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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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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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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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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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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