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" Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price. "
Jean Baudrillard
Higher
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" A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy. "
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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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" The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence. "
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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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" 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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" There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. 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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" 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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" I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. 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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" The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real. "
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" Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore. "
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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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" It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are. "
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" What is a society without a heroic dimension? "
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" Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated. "
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" The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it. "
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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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" Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" There is no aphrodisiac like innocence. "
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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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" There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world. "
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