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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDSanta 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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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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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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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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 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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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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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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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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