5 Quotes by Jean Baudrillard about life

  • Author Jean Baudrillard
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    There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. 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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    You can talk of things so much that they end up materializing in your life: simulation, seduction, reversibility, indifference. Gradually, life comes to resemble a montage of all these things, in a floating circulation of women, concepts, dreams and journeys. In this way, writing ends up preceding life, determining it. And life ends up conforming to a sign which was initially quite cavalier. This is no doubt why so many are afraid to write.

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  • Author Jean Baudrillard
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    Where this living death doesn't exist, life takes its place. Just as the person who loses his shadow becomes the shadow of himself.('The shadow of himself - that would be a fine title. With the subtitle: 'Memoirs of a double life'.)

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  • Author Jean Baudrillard
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    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 living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

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  • Author Jean Baudrillard
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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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