Dreams Quotes by Jean Baudrillard

8 Dreams quotes by Jean Baudrillard

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Jean Baudrillard loved to blur the line between the real and the simulated. In this eight‑quote set, his musings on dreams tease out the uncanny ways our subconscious mirrors the hyperreal world.

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If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive…

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We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being…

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“The indifference of trees to the historical moment. The indifference of dreams to interpretation. The indifference of the people to its own…

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“Childish despair: this woman I meet in my dream, fall passionately in love with and give my address to - I immediately…

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“This country is without hope. Even its garbage is clean, its trade lubricated, its traffic pacified. The latent, the lacteal, the lethal…

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“But it must be seen that the term 'catastrophe' has this 'catastrophic' meaning of the end and annihilation only in a linear…

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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

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“We criticize Americans for not being able either to analyse or conceptualize. But this is a wrong-headed critique. It is we who…

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Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape…

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There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

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The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage.

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“We need a visible past, a visible continuum, a visible myth of origin to reassure us as to our ends, since ultimately we have…

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History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.

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Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our…

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If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one…

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but…

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When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness,…

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You have to know how to disappear.

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Large department stores, with their luxuriant abundance of canned goods, foods, and clothing, are like the primary landscape and the geometrical locus of affluence.…

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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

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