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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThis sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
More Jean Baudrillard Quotes
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved – commitment to a scenario.
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The world is not dialectical – it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.
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Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
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This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other’s heart.
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Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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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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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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