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…

Quote by Jean Baudrillard

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of...

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of...

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising...

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising...

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who...

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who...

The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God....

The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God....

Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In...

Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In...

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even...

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even...

We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness...

We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness...

There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room....

There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room....

At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of...

At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of...

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible....

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible....

The day the world ends, no one will be there, just as no one was...

The day the world ends, no one will be there, just as no one was...

Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be...

Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be...

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that...

We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that...

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language,...

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language,...

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop...

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop...

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in...

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in...

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is...

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is...