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 BAUDRILLARDAmericans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
More Jean Baudrillard Quotes
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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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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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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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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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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, 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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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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