Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDDeep 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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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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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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 sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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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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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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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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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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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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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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