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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDDriving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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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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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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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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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 sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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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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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
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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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