Jean Baudrillard – Purpee Quotes

“I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?”

— Jean Baudrillard

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Category: money
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Deep down, no one really believes they

Posted on January 14, 2016January 14, 2011 by admin

“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.”

— Jean Baudrillard

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Category: death
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To love someone is to isolate him

Posted on August 20, 2015August 20, 2010 by admin

“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.”

— Jean Baudrillard

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Category: future
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If you say, I love you, then

Posted on June 24, 2015June 24, 2010 by admin

“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.”

— Jean Baudrillard

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Category: love
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Deep down, the US, with its space,

Posted on May 8, 2015May 8, 2010 by admin

“Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.”

— Jean Baudrillard

Author: Jean Baudrillard
Category: society
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