This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDIt 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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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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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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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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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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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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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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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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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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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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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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