Jean Baudrillard Quotes

And so one can imagine that in amorous seduction the other is the locus of your secret - the other unknowingly holds that which you will never have the chance to know. (p. 65)

Jean Baudrillard

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• And so one can imagine that in amorous seduction the other is the locus of your secret - the other unknowingly holds that which you will never have the chance to know. (p. 65)

  

  Jean Baudrillard
  • Seduction