Quote by Jean Baudrillard
The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a s

The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy. – Jean Baudrillard

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Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void. – Jean Baudrillard

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Prophecy
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Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary. He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination. – Jean Baudrillard

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Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust. – Jean Baudrillard

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Diets and Dieting
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I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant. – Paul Gauguin

Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable. – Jackie Gleason

Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in. – Kingsley Amis

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who lives well. – Elbert Hubbard

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Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than submit to the desolation of an empty abundance. – Michael Harrington

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A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory. – George Eliot

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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. – Gustave Flaubert

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