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From Quotes by Jean Baudrillard
- To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a…
- 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…
- Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it…
- Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency…
- It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. In order to do…
- All of [the] activities here have a surreptitious end-of-the-world feel to them:... these joggers sleepwalking in the mist like shadow's who have escaped from Plato's…
- Business owners are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an owner away from his…
- A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a…
- We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the dominated,…
- If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an incredibly off-hand manner.…
- The Yuppies are not defectors from revolt, they are a new race, assured, amnestied, exculpated, moving with ease in the world of performance, mentally indifferent…
- The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain…
- A woman spent all Christmas Day in a telephone box without ringing anyone. If someone comes to phone, she leaves the box, then resumes her…
- Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an…
- Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life…
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