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You are born modern, you do not become so. - Jean Baudrillard

You are born modern, you do not become so. – Jean Baudrillard

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Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence. – Jean Baudrillard

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If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World. – Jean Baudrillard

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It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to. – Edgar Z. Friedenberg

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If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle — absolute busyness — then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy — and without consciousness. – Gunther Grass

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I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume. – Italo Calvino

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It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times — the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie — seem attractive by comparison. – Christopher Lasch

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What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Death was like love, a romantic escape. – Brigitte Bardot

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