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Jean Baudrillard Quotes
«Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
| Keywords:
ape, associate, independence, mutual, other than, scratch, scratching
«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 murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
| Keywords:
absorb, black light, circle around, dispossess, dispossessed, dispossessing, drag, isolate, murderous, trace, wipe, wipe out
«The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert, and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them: the mindless luxury of a rich civilization»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
| Keywords:
admirable, air-conditioned, Air conditioning, artificial, conditioning, cooling, cooling system, demented, hotels, lit, mindless, skyline, skylines, Something in the air, systems
«Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
| About:
Seduction
| Keywords:
commands, high-priced, seduction, seductions, Sex and, singular, singulars, sublime
«We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women have all the qualities / courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning / whereas all our imagination can do is naively pile up the illusion of courage.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
| Keywords:
capacity, cunning, dreamt, illusion, miracle, naively, pile, piles, pile up, piling, qualities, The Miracle, The Pile, The Pleasure
«The liberated man is not the one who is freed in his ideal reality, his inner truth, or his transparency; he is the man who changes spaces, who circulates, who changes sex, clothes, and habits according to fashion, rather than morality, and who changes opinions not as his conscience dictates but in response to opinion polls.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
| Keywords:
circulate, circulated, circulates, circulating, dictates, freed, liberated, opinion poll, Opinion polls, polled, Polling, polls, response, spaces, transparency
«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.»
«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.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
| Keywords:
antagonism, antagonisms, dialectical, equilibrium, extremes, radical, reconciliation, sworn, synthesis
«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 story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
| Keywords:
blank, cinema, deaths, dispatch, dispatched, elsewhere, infernal, life story, microfilm, screened, sidereal, void
«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 fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth -- either epileptic or dead.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
| Keywords:
abominable, burgeon, burgeoning, burgeons, crawl, dribble, dung, epileptic, Epileptics, heap, saliva, unheeded