Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDDeep 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.
More Jean Baudrillard Quotes
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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
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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 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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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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Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.
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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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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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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