When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
JEAN BAUDRILLARDOnly 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 very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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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 no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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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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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Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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