There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDLike dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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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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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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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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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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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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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