I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDDeep 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.
More Jean Baudrillard Quotes
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It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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 real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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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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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved – commitment to a scenario.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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 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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