Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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the points-based driving license

The points-based driving license is an excellent formula. But it is scandalous that this outstanding idea should apply only to behaviour on the roads. It ought to be extended to the whole of existence with the creation of an existential licence along these same lines. For every offence against the …

—p.44 Fragments: Cool Memories III, 1990-1995 by Jean Baudrillard
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blowing over the devastated real

I have dreamt of a force-five conceptual storm blowing over the devastated real.

—p.40 by Jean Baudrillard
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it is difficult to be more objective

The funniest thing, all the same, is this 'probably'. The scientific community 'asserts' that something has probably never existed! It is difficult to be more objective.

—p.38 by Jean Baudrillard
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the allegory of my own death

I found her so beautiful in black only because I dreamt of her dead. In fact, it was because I dreamt of her as a widow. What I was in love with in her was the allegory of my own death. But I possessed that allegory physically--which is an original form of the work of mourning.

—p.33 by Jean Baudrillard
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intervening in one's own dreams

But from what point does one intervene in one's own dreams, from the inside, without waking? And from what point does one intervene in reality, from the inside, though without believing in it?

—p.30 by Jean Baudrillard