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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDLike dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
More Jean Baudrillard Quotes
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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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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 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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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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 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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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