507 Quotes by Jean Baudrillard
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It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us in unintelligibility, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous.
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All contents of meaning are absorbed in the only dominant form of the medium. Only the medium can make an event.
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We are threatened not just by memory loss, but by the routing of the synapses by the filterable viruses of memory. The strange disappearance of names, faces and places seems like a programmed erasure, like the imperceptible advance of a virus which, after infecting the artificial memories of computers, is now attacking natural memories. Might there not be a conspiracy of software?
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The sudden cancellation of a planned event or of some decision or other is one of those subtle pleasures with which chance occasionally blesses us.
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If destiny is implacable, that is because you have not known how to please it.
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Thought can no longer keep itself in a critical equilibrium. It has to be spread eagled between violent nostalgia and violent anticipation.Of course we should dream of all women. There isn't one of them who wouldn't be offended if a man didn't dream of all of them through her.
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Perhaps the desire to take photographs arises from the observation that on the broadest view, from the standpoint of reason, the world is a great disappointment. In its details, however, and caught by surprise, the world always has a stunning clarity.The secret form of the Other is what has to be reconstituted, as in anamorphosis, starting with the fragments and tracing its broken lines, its lines of fracture.
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Keep objects as a systemKeep production as a mirror Keep death as an exchange Keep the world as a simulacrumKeep the evil transparent Keep the majorities silent Keep your seduction aliveKeep your memory coolKeep yourself as an otherKeep perfection as a crimeKeep illusion for the endKeep on line for the while
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In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonour or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid of dying fools. Now the fact is that there is no Extreme Unction to absolve us of foolishness. We endure it here on earth as subjective eternity.
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