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“Anyone who cannot cope with life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate...but with his other hand he can jot down what he sees among the ruins, for he sees different and more things than the others; after all, he is dead in his own lifetime and the real survivor.”
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“There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism.”
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“We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”
― Simulacra and Simulation
― Simulacra and Simulation
“One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.”
― Simulacra and Simulation
― Simulacra and Simulation
“Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays cosily tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.”
― Cool Memories
― Cool Memories
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