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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDLike dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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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 sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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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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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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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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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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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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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The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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