Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThe abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
More Jean Baudrillard Quotes
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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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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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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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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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.
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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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.
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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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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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