The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThis 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.
More Jean Baudrillard Quotes
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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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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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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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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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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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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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