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 BAUDRILLARDWe shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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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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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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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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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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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