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“Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.”
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“Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true.”
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“When you take away verisimilitude, you do not automatically find the veridical but, perhaps, the implausible.”
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“How many faces, how many bodies can you recognize, with your eyes closed, only by touching them? Have you ever closed your eyes and acted unconsciously? Or loved someone so blindly, you could almost feel their energy in a dark room and be moved by the powerful touch of their ideas?”
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“And so art is everywhere, since artifice is at the very heart of reality. And so art is dead, not only because its critical transcendence is gone, but because reality itself, entirely impregnated by an aesthetic which is inseparable from its own structure, has been confused with its own image. Reality no longer has the time to take on the appearance of reality. It no longer even surpasses fiction: it captures every dream even before it takes on the appearance of a dream.”
― Simulations (Semiotext
― Simulations (Semiotext
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