Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDSeduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
More Jean Baudrillard Quotes
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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 is nothing funny about Halloween.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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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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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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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