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Genius is childhood recaptured.
Smile and others will smile back.
Welcome to the Desert of the Real.
You have to know how to disappear.
All societies end up wearing masks.
There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
You are born modern, you do not become so.
What is a society without a heroic dimension?
The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.
Power floats like money, like language, like theory.
Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.
The only thing worse than being bored is being boring.
Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
What I am, I don't know. I am the simulacrum of myself.
The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high.
Challenge, and not desire, lies at the heart of seduction.
Sadder than the beggar is the man who eats alone in public.
[I]nside every computer, there is a hidden man being bored.
Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
Forgetting the extermination is part of the extermination itself.
The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud.
The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body.
Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible.
Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality.
At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance.
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
We are no longer dealing with historical events, but with places of collapse.
Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much.
It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.
We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.
Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real.
History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.
Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
It is in love with its limitless horizontality, as New York may be with its verticality.
I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again
It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
There is no human reason to be here, except for the sheer ecstasy of being crowded together.
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true .
Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.
The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
The desert is no longer a landscape, it is a pure form produced by the abstraction of all others.
Power is only too happy to make football bear a diabolical responsibility for stupefying the masses.
Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage.
A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.
It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes.
Prophesying catastrophe is incredibly banal. The more original move is to assume that it has already happened.