A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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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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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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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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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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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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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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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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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 exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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