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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Mistakes, scandals, and failures no longer signal catastrophe. The crucial thing is that they be made credible, and that the public be made aware of the efforts being expended in that direction. The marketing immunity of governments is similar to that of the major brands of washing powder. – Jean Baudrillard

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We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures. – Jean Baudrillard

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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

Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live. – Juvenal

Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god. – Charles Buck

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