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 BAUDRILLARDI hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
More Jean Baudrillard Quotes
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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, 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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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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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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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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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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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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The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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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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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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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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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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