“How a woman can once again become violently desirable after you have broken up remains a mystery. Some, perhaps, have the same sense of retrospective admiration of their own bodies at the moment of leaving them.”— Jean Baudrillard, amazon.comTagged: Death, Loss, Breaking Up
“Two precious moments. In the vague anticipation of a woman, of possessing her — the illusion of pleasure — and in the freshly felt resentment at her loss, when you are still under the spell, in the illusion of loss. Between the two, you get the feeling nothing happens.”— Jean Baudrillard, amazon.comTagged: Love Delusions, How Love Feels, Intoxicated, Illusions of Love
“Debt and drugs: new balance of terror. Will the debt be balanced out, the drugs cleaned up? No way. Vicious circle of soft wars, viral forms of finance and morphine.”— Jean Baudrillard, amazon.comTagged: New World Order, Drugs, Vicious Circle
“The Iron Curtain has been supplanted by a mental glass curtain. The Berlin wall has been supplanted by the invisible wall, the unrelenting wall of the interface and transparency which, unlike the other, lets everything through, transfuses all light, relentlessly illuminates every nook and cranny, ev…”— Jean Baudrillard, amazon.comTagged: Mental Glass Curtain, Berlin Wall, The Sunlight Project, Transparency, The Ironclad Web
“Beware of the treacheries of language. Stereotyped political language generally says the opposite of what it is thinking.”— Jean Baudrillard, amazon.comTagged: Rhetoric, Secret Codes of Language, Political Discussion, Language, Holes of Talking
“Communism had succeeded in wresting entire generations away from the work ethic, in killing in them the slightest desire to produce, in making them lazy. This historical scandal is coming to an end. The whole of Europe is going to work in concert. But the question still remains: shouldn't we have pr…”— Jean Baudrillard, amazon.comTagged: Socialism, Capitalism, The Long Yawn of History, Who Do You Serve?, Work Ethic
“Communicate? Communicate? Only doors communicate.”— Jean Baudrillard, amazon.comTagged: Communicating, Communicating Vessels, Les Vases Communicants, Opening
“God exists, but I don't believe in him. God himself doesn't believe in Him, according to the tradition. That would be a weakness.”— Jean Baudrillard, amazon.comTagged: God, Theology, Belief is Lame, Ideology Is Lame, Hebrew Tradition
“Since the media always make you out to say the opposite of what you say, you should have the courage always to say that opposite of what you think.”— Jean Baudrillard, amazon.comTagged: Media Manipulation, Lie to the Media Because They Will Lie About You
“True poetry is what which has lost all the distinctive signs of poetry. If poetry exists, it is anywhere but in poetry.”— Jean Baudrillard, amazon.comTagged: Poetry
“Man has never signified death for woman, as she signifies it for man.”— Jean Baudrillard, amazon.comTagged: Death
“In writing, the most enthralling moment is that of condensation, ellipsis, rarefaction. Building up increasingly dense nuclei around which light is disoriented, and thought too, since it lost the sense of its origin.”— Jean Baudrillard, amazon.comTagged: Against Decoration, Writing