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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThe 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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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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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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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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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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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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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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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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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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