The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDSeduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
More Jean Baudrillard Quotes
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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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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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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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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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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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 order of the world is always right – such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.
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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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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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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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