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 BAUDRILLARDIn 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.
More Jean Baudrillard Quotes
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Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.
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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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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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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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 very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
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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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