Quote by Jean Baudrillard
There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty

There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you. – Jean Baudrillard

Other quotes by Jean Baudrillard

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us. – Jean Baudrillard

Category:
Discovery
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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

Category:
Language
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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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Future
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Other Quotes from
Television
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Television keeps the masses occupied. What if everyone decided they wanted to make something of their lives? Television keeps the competition down and keeps more criminals off the street. What if everyone decided to go to law school or medical school? It would sure make it tough on the rest of us. – Jim Urbanovich

Category:
Television

What compels you to stare, night after night, at all the glittering hokum that has been deliberately put together for you? – J.B. Priestley, about Americans

Category:
Television

I got sick of turning on the TV and seeing my face. – Michael J. Fox

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Television

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. – Ann Landers

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Television

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Amazement awaits us at every corner. – James Broughton

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Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses. – Jean Baptiste Molière, Le Malade Imaginaire

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Men and women, women and men. It will never work. – Erica Jong

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I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four. – Jim Lehrer

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