Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThe 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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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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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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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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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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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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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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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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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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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