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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDNever 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.
More Jean Baudrillard Quotes
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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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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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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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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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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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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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 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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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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