Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThere is nothing funny about Halloween.
More Jean Baudrillard Quotes
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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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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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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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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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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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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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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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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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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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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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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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