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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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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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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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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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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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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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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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