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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.

Jean Baudrillard

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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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Believe Deep Down Live No One Really Right
Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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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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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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Antagonism Dialectical Equilibrium Evil Extreme Principle Radical Reconciliation Sworn Synthesis World
At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.
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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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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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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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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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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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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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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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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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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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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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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