Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThe real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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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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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 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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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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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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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 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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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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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