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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. "
Jean Baudrillard
Side
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Day
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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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" 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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" Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore. "
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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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" What is a society without a heroic dimension? "
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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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" Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment. "
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" A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy. "
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" There is no aphrodisiac like innocence. "
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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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" 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 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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" 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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" 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 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated. "
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" Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price. "
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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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