Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThis sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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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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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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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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