Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDTo 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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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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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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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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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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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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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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