The Signs as Quotes from Jean Baudrillard’s Cool Memories

Aries

“The person who keeps the truth in his hands has lost.”

Taurus

“Increasingly, it is machines, not people, who get nervous. People only become nervous if they force themselves to look like machines.”

Gemini

“One must be simultaneously bursting with life and totally unreal.”

Cancer

“Obsession is the alimentary form of passion.”

Leo

“Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.”

Virgo

“One can make beautiful things simply to get rid of them. Without pride, without vanity—simply by expulsion: I abjure my inertia by acts.”

Libra

“Intelligence is the seductive form of thought, just as the secret is the seductive form of truth.”

Scorpio

“Life can be so mystified that you can never be sure of its opposite.”

Sagittarius

“Jealousy gets the same results as passion, but it gets them cold, like in a dream.”

Capricorn

“The individual is less alienated by the fact that everything is known about him than by the fact that he is called upon to know everything about himself.”

Aquarius

“It is not the figure of seduction that is mysterious, but that of the subject tormented by his own desire or his own image.”

Pisces

“The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.”