Jean Baudrillard Quotes
The close-up of a face is as obscene as a sexual organ seen from up close. It is a sexual organ. The promiscuity of the detail, the zoom-in, takes on a sexual value. (p. 43)
Jean Baudrillard
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Samantha Bond
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L'Wren Scott
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
Mae West
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James Stockdale
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J. A. Jance
The dark does not weep for itself because there is no light. Rather, it accepts that it is the dark. It is said that even the gods must die.' He winks. 'But not without one hell of a fight.'
Libba Bray
The close-up of a face is as obscene as a sexual organ seen from up close. It is a sexual organ. The promiscuity of the detail, the zoom-in, takes on a sexual value. (p. 43)
Jean Baudrillard