The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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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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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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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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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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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 sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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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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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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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