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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThere is nothing funny about Halloween.
More Jean Baudrillard Quotes
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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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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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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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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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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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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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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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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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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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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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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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