There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDWe shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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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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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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This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other’s heart.
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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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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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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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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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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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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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