I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDWe shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
More Jean Baudrillard Quotes
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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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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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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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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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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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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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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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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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