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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDIt only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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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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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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